Main News of August 19

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*A group of Japanese nationalists has landed on a chain of uninhabited islands claimed both by China and Japan amid an escalating territorial dispute between the two countries, Xinhua news agency reported

* A Sudanese minister and 30 other people were killed when their plane crashed on the way to Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state for an Eid al-Fitr celebration, Al Arabiya reported

*Miss China Wenxia Yu (in the photo), a 23-year-old music student, won the Miss World-2012 title

RUSSIA

*A bomb went off at a mosque in Dagestan, where on Saturday two unknown assailants opened fire wounding eight people, a spokesman for the local Interior Ministry said.

*At least 7 people were killed and 15 injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a policeman funeral in Ingushetia in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, a spokesperson of regional emergency ministry said