At least four soldiers were killed and 59 others were wounded when lightening struck a group of solders near a military based in the country's north-central Polonnaaruwa district on Tuesday evening, officials said. "A group of soldiers was engaged in a routine training exercise when a lightening hit them, leaving four soldiers killed and 59 wounded at the Katukaliyawa Army camp in Minneriya on Tuesday around 5. 30 pm. (local time)," Military Spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara was quoted by the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) as saying.

Authorities at Yakima airport in Washington evacuated the terminal and temporarily closed the airport Sunday when they found two training grenades inside a passenger's travel bag. However, mo one was hurt from the incident. About 35 people inside the terminal were evacuated before bomb experts from the U. S. Army called in by police arrived to defuse the bomb, which contained no explosives.

After 16 years, a group of doctors finally relieved an ageing Croatian soldier of piercing stomach pains by removing a four-inch needle accidentally left inside his stomach when he was operated upon by a group of army doctors for wounds he sustained in the battlefield during the Yugoslavian civil war. Toma Zupan. Now 73, was seriously injured in 1991 after a civil war erupted during the break up of the former Yugoslavia.

A 23-year old female recruit who underwent breast implant is appealing to military authorities for reinstatement after she was booted out of army training in Germany for have boob job. Alessija Dorfmann, who has cup D after the operation, claims she was devastated after being kicked out of the army training as it has it been always her dream to be a soldier with a great figure.

Hundreds of thousands of holiday greeting cards and get-well-soon letters for injured American soldiers were returned to sender or thrown away unopened and never reached their destinations. The Pentagon and Postal service have refused to deliver mail letters addressed to wounded troops since the September 11 attacks and the anthrax scare, for fear terrorists might send toxic materials or bad messages to the recovering soldier wounded during war.