Six elephants including three calves died in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya after getting drunk on rice beer and running through a paddy field where they were electrocuted, officials and residents said Tuesday. The incident happened in the village of Chandan Nukat, about 250 kilometres west of Shillong, the state capital, on Sunday night.

After traveling for more than 6,000 miles covering at least 19 countries mostly in Asia and Europe commencing in Hong Kong for more than four months, two British adventurers are now back in London - on horseback - still in their tuxedos. British Heath Buck and American Doug Campbell said they came up with the idea on raising funds for a charity when they met in a Hong Kong bar.

Doctors in India have removed a 3-inch toothbrush lodged inside the nose of a 31-year old woman, a local paper reported. The report said that the housewife went to a hospital in Mumbai two months ago suffering from severe pain.

A 57-year old man allegedly attacked his 81-year-old father with a hammer and hit him on the head, according to authorities. The San Mateo prosecutors said the suspect Jayantibhai Patel, who is staying in his father's house in Foster City, hit his father with a hammer because he thought the 81-year-old man needed to be sent to the hospital before being sent to a nursing home. Patel wants to keep his father in a nursing home so he can move back to India.

early 100 wild elephants rampaged on a river island in India's northeast Assam province on Saturday, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said. "The herd is wandering just about anywhere in Majuli. A forest guard was injured and about 50 houses have been pulled down, forcing residents to take shelter in a makeshift relief camp that we have set up," LS Changsan, Jorhat district magistrate told the media.