Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, April 10

TOKYO -- A U.S. military parachute fell onto the ground of a middle school in Tokyo, Japan's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

The incident rekindled safety concerns among residents over U.S. bases in Japan, following a string of incidents including a window falling from a U.S. military aircraft onto a school playground near a U.S. base in Okinawa in December last year.(Japan-U.S.-Parachute)

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SYDNEY -- Arabia's oldest human finger bone fossil is around 90,000 years old, an Australian university announced Tuesday after completing data collection to directly date the fossil.

The fossil was discovered in Al Wusta, an ancient freshwater lake that is now the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia, by an international team led by the University of Oxford in Britain, which also included scientists from Australia, Germany, Spain and Saudi Arabia. (Australia-Bone Fossil)

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TOKYO -- Masazo Nonaka, a 112-year-old Japanese man residing in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, was recognized as the world's oldest living male, Guinness World Records said Tuesday.

Nonaka, who was born on July 25, 1905, as well as receiving a certificate from Guinness World Records, was also presented with an award and a cake from the mayor of the town of Ashoro where he was born and currently lives, local media reported. (Japan-Guinness World Records)

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ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani army said Tuesday that security forces have foiled three major terrorist activities in a tribal region near the country's border with Afghanistan.

A special intelligence-based operation was carried out by the security forces along with intelligence agencies in Kurram Agency, against terrorist networks involved in three major terrorist activities in the main town of Parachinar, an army statement said. (Pakistan-Terror Activities) Enditem