Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent to the prison where he will serve out his eight-year sentence on charges including tax evasion and fraud, the Interfax news agency reported today.

Floodwaters from a mountain river killed at least two people and left 13 missing in a village in western Nepal where rescuers struggled to evacuate hundreds of people trapped by the flooding, officials said today.

The US has agreed to sell sophisticated F-16 fighter planes to both India and its next-door rival Pakistan. India immediately expressed its anger to President George Bush.