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2009-01-07 00:12

China says 19-year-old woman dies from bird flu (AP)

A relative, right, mourns for a family loss of 19-year-old Huang Yanqing who died from bird flu in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. The official Xinhua News Agency said Huang became ill after buying and cleaning nine ducks last month at a market in Hebei province, which borders Beijing. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.


2009-01-07 00:12

SKorea's opposition ends parliamentary occupation (AP)

Parliament security officials struggle with opposition parties members who have been staging a sit-down demonstration in front of a main entrance of the parliament plenary session hall at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Lawmakers scuffled with security guards when the guards moved in to forcibly remove opposition legislators who had been camped out in parliament for nine days in a standoff with President Lee Myung-bak's ruling party.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Opposition lawmakers ended their violent, 12-day siege of South Korea's parliament Tuesday after successfully delaying a key vote on a U.S. free trade deal and other legislation.


2009-01-07 00:12

Indian airline fires 9 overweight crew members (AP)

The tail of an Air India Boeing 777 in 2008. India's state-run carrier has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)AP - Nine flight attendants who couldn't meet the weight standards of India's national airlines have been fired, an official said Tuesday.


2009-01-06 18:14

Japanese PM rejects calls for resignation (AP)

Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso, bottom, speaks to Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa after Nakagawa gave a speech during the 171st Regular Diet session in Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Aso's Cabinet submitted an extra budget worth 4.8 trillion yen ($52 billion) to stimulate the recession-hit economy. He will also submit a record 88.5 trillion yen ($962 billion) budget for the next fiscal year starting in April 2009 to the parliament later in the month. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Increasingly unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso rejected calls Tuesday for his resignation, insisting he needs to steer the world's second-largest economy out of recession.


2009-01-06 18:14

Afghan cleric shot to death in mosque (AP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, listens to a question with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Two gunmen shot a Muslim cleric to death inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday, while a NATO serviceman was killed elsewhere in the south.


2009-01-06 18:14

Iran offers more gas to Turkey (AP)

AP - Iran is prepared to increase gas exports to Turkey after Ankara's supplies

2009-01-06 12:00

Australia wife charged for setting husband on fire (AP)

AP - An Australian woman has been charged with murder after allegedly setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair.

2009-01-06 12:00

Japan wants anti-whaling ship barred from ports (AP)

In this Dec. 26, 2008 file photo provided by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, anti-whaling protestors in the ship M/V Steve Irwin, right,  throw butyric acid onto the deck of the Japanese whaling ship, the Kaiko Maru, during a close encounter in the Antarctic Ocean.  Japan plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling protest ship from using their ports to refuel, an official said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, heightening a high-seas cat-and-mouse game in Antarctic waters between Japan's whaling fleet and the Sea Shepherd conservationist group. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Eric Cheng, HO, File)AP - Japan said Tuesday it plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling protest ship from using their ports to refuel, heightening a cat-and-mouse game in Antarctic waters between Japan's whaling fleet and the conservationists.


2009-01-06 12:00

Stranded sea cow saved by Filipino fishermen (AP)

In this Jan. 1, 2009, photo released by the World Wide Fund Phils, shown are local residents pushing back to the water a giant sea cow belonging to a species facing a high risk of extinction after it was stranded in a shallow waters of Puerto Princesa in western Philippines. Sea cows are thought to live up to 70 years, but give birth to a single calf which takes up to 15 years to mature.  (AP Photo/WWF Phils, Mavic Madillano)AP - Filipino fishermen rescued an endangered sea cow, pushing it back into open water after it was stranded off a beach in the western Philippines, conservationists said Tuesday.


2009-01-06 06:02

China targets Google in pornography crackdown (AP)

AP - China warned Google and other popular Web portals Monday that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users, the latest in a series of government crackdowns targeting Internet content.

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