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London: A defence section official of the Pakistan high commission in London committed suicide last evening by jumping from the fourth floor of the high commission building. He was recently posted here.Sources at the high commission said that Munir Ahmed, who worked as an assistant in the Naval section of the high commission, jumped out of the toilet window at around 3.30 pm. He stayed alone in London, and is survived by his wife and five children, reported the News.âANI***Nude man tries to open plane emergency doorOklahoma City: An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a professional soccer team and others, the FBI has said.Members of the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer were among those who grabbed the passenger near an exit door, FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said. Tie wraps were placed on the man, whose name was not immediately released. âAP***Crane collapse kills 4, injures 6 in HoustonChicago: Four people were killed and at least six others were injured when a massive crane collapsed at a chemical plant in Houston, local media reported.All of the people injured were contract workers, a spokesman for LyondellBasell told reporters."At this point, weâre very unsure as to the cause of the failure of the crane," KHOU news quoted the spokesman as saying at a press conference. âAFP***Diapers filled with $490,300 found in MexicoMexico City: A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, according to the defence ministry: nearly half a million dollars in cash. Soldiers conducting a routine check "found in a tractor-trailer a packet of diapers containing $490,300," the ministry said in a statement.It said that the cash was likely a stash of narco-dollars destined for money-laundering, as the truck had come from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state in Mexicoâs northwest, a region known for trafficking by major drug cartels.The driver of the truck was arrested. âAFP***Man caught with clothes full of drugsMexico City: A man has been arrested at Mexico Cityâs airport for carrying a suitcase filled with shirts and pants saturated in pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamine.The attorney-generalâs office said the 33 pairs of pants and 46 shirts were moist and stained with white powder.Chemical tests showed the powder was pseudoephedrine. Investigators have not determined the amount of pseudoephedrine on the clothes.Officials say the man arrived from Argentina and was caught trying to board a flight to Guadalajara.âAPÂ