London, Dec 9 (ANI): US President George W Bush has said his belief that God created the world is not incompatible with scientific proof of evolution.

The Bible is "probably not" literally true and that a belief that God created the world is compatible with the theory of evolution.

In an interview with ABC's "Nightline" on Monday, the President also said he probably is not a literalist when reading the Bible although an individual can learn a great deal from it, including the New Testament teaching that God sent his only son.

"I think you can have both. You're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president," he said.

But "evolution is an interesting subject. I happen to believe that evolution doesn't fully explain the mystery of life," said Bush, an outspoken Christian who often invokes God in his speeches.

"I think that God created the Earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

Asked whether the Bible was literally true, Bush replied: "Probably not. No, I'm not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it. The important lesson is 'God sent a son,'" he said. (ANI)

Belgaum (Karnataka), Dec 9 (ANI): Indian and Chinese soldiers underwent practical demonstrations and lectures on counter terror and insurgency in the mountainous terrains of Belgaum on Monday.

The first-ever Sino-Indian military combat exercise on Indian soil to counter terror and insurgency began here on December 6. The exercise will take place from December 6 to 14.

Commencing from the basics of surveillance, security of posts, search and destroy operations many other counter terror operations were demonstrated by soldiers of India and China. Contingent Leader of the People's Liberation Army, Senior Colonel Qin Xiang You interacted with the Indian soldiers, and said that there were many things in common between both the armies.

Senior Colonel Qin Xiang said there were many things to learn from from well-experienced Indian Army.

Commandant of the Infantry School Mhow, Lietanant General Jasbir Lidder, witnessed the demo session, and said: "With the growing menace of terrorism we need to keep pace with time. During the current exercise, both the Armies will definitely benefit from each other."

The Chinese soldiers were also taken to the Commando Wing at Belgaum and introduced to rigorous physical activities, survival techniques and confidence building.

"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going," the popular reference to the training of a commando was amply visible when Indian Commandoes demonstrated confidence exercises with high speed, agility and physical courage.

Volunteers from the Chinese contingent also took part in the practice.

During the course of the joint training, Chinese troops from the 1st Company of the Infantry Battalion of the Chengdu Military Area Command and Indian Army troops from 8 Maratha Light Infantry Battalion, undertook joint tactical maneuvers and drills; interoperability training and joint command post procedures.

The exercise will finally culminate in a joint counter-terrorist operational exercise with the enemy in simulated conditions. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)

Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): The US Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.

The court did not comment on its order on Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election.

Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth -- his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject -- he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen," one of the requirements of the Constitution for eligibility to be president.

"This is the least surprising move by the Supreme Court in years. No serious legal scholar believed that the Justices would take the case and overturn the election," said CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen.

Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.

At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed.

Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit, CBS News reported.

Federal courts in Ohio and Washington State have rejected similar lawsuits.

Allegations raised on the Internet say the birth certificate, showing that Obama was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, is a fake.

But state officials in Hawaii say they checked health department records and have determined there is no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii. (ANI)

London, Dec 9 (ANI): A British Sikh policeman tried to blackmail known sex offenders by gleaning information from a police database and threatening to tell their families and employers.

Amerdeep Johal, 29, planned to make more than 2 million pound by using confidential details to blackmail registered sex offenders and sell information to wealthy criminals, a court heard on Monday.

The Telegraph reported that he hoped to make 419,000 pound in one month last year by sending menacing letters to targets near his home in Redbridge, Essex.

He was said to have used the Metropolitan Police's CRIMINT intelligence system to track down the addresses of criminals and suspected criminals.

Johal, using confidential information about a drugs operation, also posed as a Customs officer offering to sell 600,000 pound of seized cocaine, the court heard.

On his arrest letters found on his laptop showed he wanted 732,000 pound in 50-pound notes from another target and had other letters prepared asking for up to 600,000, pound a jury heard.

Johal was working as a constable at West End Central police station in July last year, using the CRIMINT system to get informaton for frontline officers, but he abused his positon to use the Metropolitan Police computer to compile a list of targets that he could extort money from, it was said.

He allegedly told one planned victim that he wanted enough money to leave London, pay off his mortgage and never work again, The Times reported.

He asked his targets to reply by the end of the month and left a mobile number, the telephone for which was found on him when he was arrested, the court was told.

Johal, formerly an executive on the Metropolitan Police Sikh Association, denies 12 counts of blackmail and one of misconduct in a public office.

Johal was arresed after some of the recipients of the letters went to the police and he was the subject of an undercover operation. (ANI)