India: Train fire kills 57

Muslim attackers armed with stones and kerosene descended Wednesday on a train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists, setting fire to four cars and killing 57 people.

Fourteen of the dead were children and 43 other people were injured, many critically, when a mob attacked the train as it pulled out of Godhra, Gujarat state officials said.

Fearing the attack would ignite sectarian riots, Indian officials immediately stepped up security across the nation. The prime minister urged Hindus not to retaliate.

Cuba: Construction starts on Guantanamo prison

Navy workers hammered and hoisted wooden planks Wednesday, building the first units of a permanent detention facility at the U.S. base for hundreds of prisoners in the war on terrorism.

Naval construction workers were building 16-by-32 feet wooden huts. The permanent prison will have 75 of them for military guards; a large white recreation tent and nine facilities with showers and toilets.

While the huts are being built, land will be cleared for the detention facility, with 48 cell blocks. It will have 408 separate cells and more amenities than Camp X-Ray, which now houses 300 prisoners.

Japan: Rail station sets record

The twin-towered, glass-skinned high-rise that straddles the main train station in the city of Nagoya has entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest building housing a railway terminal.

Built in 1999, the twin skyscraper splits into two towers halfway up its 804-foot facade. Inside, it has 4.4 million square feet of floor space.

Spokesman Tomofumi Ikeda said Japan Railway applied to the record book last November. A Guinness certificate awarding the honor was delivered to the railway Tuesday.