FULL HORROR EMERGES: Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake has left almost 15,000 people dead, while nearly 26,000 are buried in rubble and another 15,000 missing
More than 50,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble after China's devastating earthquake, officials said yesterday as the full horror of the disaster began to emerge.

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By Shelley Shan
Two Taiwanese, including a three-year-old boy, were yesterday repor­ted killed following the devastating earthquake in southwest China. At press time last night, 14 Taiwanese tourists remained unreachable by phone.

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FACES LIFE IN JAIL: Taiwan-born US citizen Kuo Tai-shen admitted in a Virginia federal court that he had bought secret information on US arms sales to Taiwan
By Charles Snyder
Kuo Tai-shen (郭台生), a Taiwan-born naturalized US citizen and a member of a prominent Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) family, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in a US federal court in Virginia to spying for China on US military sales to Taiwan, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment

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The British government recorded reports of alien craft flying over Liverpool and a UFO hovering over Waterloo Bridge in London, it was revealed in declassified files released yesterday.

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Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur yesterday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead.

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