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7,700 dead in China quake epicentre, battle to reach thousands trapped in rubble 13 May 08, 23:53 ET AFP - At least 7,700 people have died in one small town at the epicentre of a huge earthquake that struck southwest China, state media reported on Wednesday. more Police report 80 killed by bombs in western India 13 May 08, 23:04 ET AP - A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 80 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage. more US wants to boost Trinidad energy ties 13 May 08, 22:59 ET AP - A top U.S. energy official says Washington wants to boost ties with Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean nation that is the No. 1 supplier of liquid natural gas to the United States. more Green aliens, UFOs said to visit UK: secret files 13 May 08, 21:51 ET Reuters - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public. more Saudis sends sharp warning to Iran over Lebanon 13 May 08, 21:43 ET AP - Saudi Arabia sent Iran a sharp warning over Lebanon Tuesday, saying Tehran's support for Hezbollah will damage its relations with other Muslim and Arab countries. more Aid agencies see China coping with quake, focus on Myanmar 13 May 08, 21:26 ET AP - International aid agencies are standing ready to help China recover from its massive earthquake, but the Chinese appear to have operations well in hand, officials said Tuesday. more Sudan: 200 died in Darfur rebel raid near Khartoum 13 May 08, 21:06 ET AP - More that 200 people were killed in fighting around Sudan's capital over the weekend, the defense minister announced Tuesday in the first official comment on casualties during the assault by Darfur rebels. more Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UK: secret files 13 May 08, 19:03 ET Reuters - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public. more Haitian protesters trade food riots for jobs 13 May 08, 18:53 ET Reuters - The demonstrators who ignited last month's violent protests against rising food prices in Haiti have accepted U.S.-sponsored jobs rather than follow through on a threat to launch new riots in the impoverished Caribbean country. more Blacks to outnumber whites in Brazil 13 May 08, 16:41 ET AP - Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to bridge, according to a government study released Tuesday. more Aid pledges flood in after China quake disaster 13 May 08, 16:32 ET AFP - Pledges of aid flooded in Tuesday for tens of thousands of survivors of China's earthquake, as officials warned battering rains and a risk of landslides were holding up relief in the worst-hit areas. more British queen makes Myanmar donation 13 May 08, 16:31 ET AFP - Queen Elizabeth II has made a "significant" personal donation to the Myanmar relief effort, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday, as the first British relief flight headed to the cyclone-ravaged country. more Seven bombs kill 80 in Indian tourist city 13 May 08, 16:23 ET AFP - Seven near-simultaneous bomb blasts tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur Tuesday, killing at least 80 people and wounding 200 in what police said was a terror attack. more US couple helps Myanmar cyclone victims 13 May 08, 16:21 ET AP - As frustrated foreign aid workers plead to enter Myanmar, one American couple is already ferrying supplies to cyclone victims. more Israel Museum puts Dead Sea scroll on rare display 13 May 08, 16:13 ET AP - One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem this week - more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment. more Mexico's efforts to end violence against women stymied by macho culture 13 May 08, 16:08 ET McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY— Martha couldn't take the beatings anymore. She visited local police three times last year to report that her husband was punching her in the stomach so hard she could barely breathe. Each time, the police told her they could do nothing unless she returned with cuts and bruises. more China moves quickly to deal with quake 13 May 08, 15:49 ET AP - Within 24 hours of China's deadly quake, some 20,000 troops converged on the disaster area to help dig out the dead and injured, and military planes and trucks ferried in another 30,000 reinforcements. more Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child 13 May 08, 14:57 ET AP - An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday. more China's panda preserves reported safe 13 May 08, 14:27 ET AP - All the pandas at the world's most famous panda preserve were reported safe late Tuesday, more than a day after China's worst earthquake in three decades closed off the remote, mountainous area. more Bomb blasts kill 60 in western India 13 May 08, 14:10 ET Reuters - Sixty people were killed in a series of bomb attacks in India's western city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, police, officials and witnesses said. more 45 dead as blasts rock Indian city 13 May 08, 14:09 ET AP - Bombs ripped through crowded parts of an ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and wounding 100 others, police and hospital officials said. more Parents board flight, forget toddler at airport 13 May 08, 14:06 ET AFP - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops. more Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens 13 May 08, 12:48 ET AP - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. more Saudi Arabia criticizes Iran's Hezbollah support 13 May 08, 11:36 ET AP - Saudi Arabia accused Iran of backing what it called a coup by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon - the clearest sign yet of rising regional tensions over the conflict. more How to spend your oil billions 13 May 08, 10:50 ET McClatchy Newspapers - May 23 Correction: The Associated Press has issued a correction to the story referenced in this post. more Beam me up, M'Lud: judges get 'Star Trek' outfits 13 May 08, 10:10 ET AFP - Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one critic likened to costumes from the hit sci-fi series Star Trek. more Belief in God 'childish,' Jews not chosen people: Einstein letter 13 May 08, 09:02 ET AFP - Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday. more Officials: Clashes in Iraq's Sadr City kill 11 13 May 08, 06:24 ET AP - A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday. more Lebanon army ready to use force to halt fighting 13 May 08, 06:08 ET AFP - Lebanese troops were ready to use force on Tuesday to disarm gunmen and enforce law and order after six days of deadly sectarian gunbattles that have plunged the nation into fear and chaos. more WTO: China must address rich-poor gap 13 May 08, 05:56 ET AP - China must address a widening gap between its rich and poor if Beijing wants a "harmonious society," the World Trade Organization will report in a trade review of the Asian nation, according to a copy obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. more Teens trapped in collapsed Chinese school 13 May 08, 05:55 ET AP - The bodies of the young teenagers were brought out of the wreckage on doors scavenged from what remained of their school. more Death by degree at British university 13 May 08, 04:17 ET AFP - A British university is to offer a degree in funerals, covering aspects of the profession from bereavement counselling to law, customer service and the disposal of human remains. more Dangers of reporting on Myanmar's cyclone 13 May 08, 04:17 ET AP - "I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger," a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click. more Myanmar rejects US, UN pressure on aid 13 May 08, 03:54 ET AFP - Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday rejected growing international pressure to accept aid workers, insisting against all the evidence that it had the emergency cyclone relief effort under control. more US paid bounty to Pakistan to arrest Canadian terror suspect 13 May 08, 01:39 ET AFP - A US intelligence agency paid a 500,000-dollar bounty to Pakistan's military for the arrest of the Canadian son of a suspected Al-Qaeda financier, said court documents. more China quake death toll rises to about 10,000 13 May 08, 01:23 ET AP - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. more US drops charges against Saudi in Sept. 11 attacks 13 May 08, 00:49 ET AP - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday. more US begins aid flights to Myanmar cyclone victims 13 May 08, 00:41 ET AP - A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but both President Bush and the U.N. chief strongly criticized the military junta over its response to the deepening crisis. more Tens of thousands dead or missing in China quake 13 May 08, 00:24 ET AFP - China was reeling Tuesday from its worst earthquake in three decades which left tens of thousands of people dead, missing or trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories. more

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