JAKARTA -- At least nine people were injured, including the train machinist and two children, as a commuter train derailed in Bogor district of West Java province in Indonesia on Sunday, officials said.

The incident took place at 10:30 a.m. Jakarta time (0330 GMT) when the train arrived in Kebon Pedes station of the district, head of community police in the district Agus Priyonyo told Xinhua by phone. (Indonesia-Train-Derailment)

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WASHINGTON -- If all goes according to plan, the first-ever spacewalk with an all-female crew is scheduled for March 29, U.S. space agency NASA has told CNN.

"As currently scheduled, the March 29 spacewalk will be the first with only women," NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz told CNN in an emailed statement Wednesday. (US-NASA-Spacewalk)

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YANGON -- Nine policemen have been killed in an attack on a village outpost in Ponnagyun township, Myanmar's Rakhine state with two others being injured, according to local police force on Sunday.

The attack on the Yo Ta Yoke village police outpost occurred Saturday at 11:20 p.m. local time (0450 GMT) and the onslaught lasted for around half an hour. (Myanmar-Police-Attack)

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ISLAMABAD -- Six laborers died on Saturday as an elevator collapsed at an under-construction building in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police and a local official said.

Commissioner of Karachi Iftikhar Ali Shalwani told media that a group of six laborers was installing glass sheets outside a multi-storey building when their construction elevator fell down from the 15th floor in Boat Basin area of Karachi. (Pakistan-Elevator Collapse) Enditem

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