An 18-month-old boy died after becoming entangled in the cord of a blind in his bedroom, a UK inquest heard today.

SOCIALITE and former drink-driving jailbird Paris Hilton has become an unlikely icon for conservationists trying to highlight the plight of binge-drinking elephants in north-eastern India.

A grenade blast in a Hare Krishna temple during a major Hindu religious festival killed four people in India’s northeast today, police said.