TOKYO - Japanese police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed five people at a railway station in southwest Japan, Kyodo reports. The five victims in the attack at Hakata railway station in Fukuoka city - all men - were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, it said. Police said that the arrested man had said he "wanted to stab people". AFP
NEW DELHI - The Indian government has suspended the licence of Kingfisher Airlines, which has been struggling to resume flights after a strike by pilots and engineers who had not been paid for months. Indian Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said the decision was made in view of passenger safety concerns as the planes were not being serviced. The company, which is drowning in debt, has not operated flights since early this month. AP
BANGKOK - Thai police say an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who had been accused of the hit-and-run death of a policeman tested positive for cocaine in his blood. Police said while Vorayuth Yoovidhya, 27, tested positive for the drug, it was not yet clear if he had ingested it before the September 3 crash. Vorayuth, who is accused of driving a Ferrari that struck the officer and dragged his body down a Bangkok street, was not taken into custody until hours after the accident. His family paid the officer's siblings 3 million baht (HK$756,000) earlier this month. AP