The Pakistani government, through a recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Sports, Culture & Youth Affairs, is mulling ending a 40-year-old ban on the public screening of Indian-made feature films. "Bollywood" were banned in 1965 during the war between the two rivals. "We have devised a mechanism for allowing the import of Indian films for a period of one year, after which the arrangements can be reviewed," Committee Chair Sen. Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry told the Press Trust of India.

Travelers using long-distance buses are being warned to take extra caution after Swedish police said cases of thieves using midgets in robbing long-distance coaches is on the rise. Police said the thieves are able to steal from the unsuspecting bus passengers by sneaking the dwarves into the luggage holds in sports bags and once they are inside, the midgets out from the bags and sift through the luggage of the train passengers.

India unveiled Thursday what's being called the world's most inexpensive car. The Nano from Tata Motors costs $2,500, but has some onlookers questioning its eventual cost to the environment. Introduced at India's motor show, the Nano sports a 50-mpg range powered by a two-cylinder 33-horsepower engine that tops out at 60-mph. In an era of GPS navigation and rear-view cameras, the Nano comes without airbags, air-conditioning and passenger mirror.

It was a festive and rich Christmas for 1,850 Spaniards holding the winning number 06381 for Spain's lottery. With a $3. 1 million jackpot, the winners received $430,000 each. The jackpot money was spread across 11 Spanish provinces where the tickets were sold, including Madrid, Barcelona and Alicante. In contrast, ticket holders of the second prize all came from Barcelona.

Around fifty Christmas shoppers dreaming of spending a shopping spree Lille, France ended up some 100 miles off from their destination after blunder in satellite navigation send their bus to another Lille in Belgium instead. "It was ridiculous," one passenger described the error. "The coach driver obviously had two Lilles to choose from on his sat-nav and he picked the wrong one.