Chinese authorities confirmed yesterday the second bird flu outbreak in Tibet this year, a day after reporting a 22-year-old man in central China died from the virus.

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A speeding bus plowed into the back of a tanker truck carrying a highly toxic chemical, killing 16 people, injuring 24 and spreading a wall of flames across a major central China highway.

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HIGH-TECH VESSEL: The Japanese coast guard and navy deployed 10 ships and six helicopters to look for the two fishermen after their boat was destroyed by the `Atago'
A Japanese navy destroyer equipped with advanced radar plowed into a fishing boat off the Pacific coast yesterday, splitting the boat in two and plunging two fishermen into the chilly waters. The men remained missing.

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Australia wants the Indonesian navy to agree to help guard tsunami buoys from pirates searching for scrap metal before the early warning devices are floated in the Indian Ocean, an official said yesterday.

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DISPLACED PEOPLE: The government has cut food rations this month and will cease food aid next month in an effort to convince the camps' residents to go back home
When the rain-laden clouds open up, as they frequently do this time of year, the tarpaulin over Alicia Pinto's bed leaks and the pathway outside her tent home becomes a quagmire.

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BRAZEN BOMBING: Two US soldiers sustained light injuries when Camp Victory came under attack, despite a general decline in violence around the Iraqi capital
Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby US military base, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two US soldiers, officials said.

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It was 1983, and Mossad agent Eliezer Tsafrir stood on the rooftop of a Beirut building observing Imad Mughniyeh's handiwork: two rising mushrooms of smoke and wailing ambulances racing to collapsed buildings where nearly 300 US and French troops had just been killed.

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The counsel for the Metropolitan police described in a London court on Monday the extent of the international conspiracy to kill Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed, as outlined by Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed.

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STICK: Secretary of State Rice warned Kenyan President Kibaki and opposition leader Odinga that it would not be business as usual with the US until the crisis is over
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Kenya's rival politicians to share power, stepping up weeks of international pressure and holding out better relations with the US as an incentive.

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US President George W. Bush yesterday toured a memorial to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying that the "horrors" remembered there show that the world cannot let such violence go unchallenged, as he opened the third leg of a week-long Africa tour.

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SAFE: The FBI concluded that a transcript of an alleged conversation between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby was fake, a recreation by a now-deceased attorney
Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of president John F. Kennedy were revealed for the first time on Monday, after spending nearly two decades locked inside a courthouse safe.

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CORRUPTION: Senior police officials said they believe the soldiers were protecting a major drug trafficker, as criminals have long infiltrated Colombia's security forces
A cashiered army lieutenant colonel and 14 soldiers were convicted on Monday of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics police agents in an ambush that showed how deeply drug corruption threatens Colombia's security forces.

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Calling on Republicans to unite behind Senator John McCain's bid for the presidency, former president George H.W. Bush endorsed the Arizona Republican at a news conference in Houston, Texas, on Monday.

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Guyanese soldiers and police fanned out in the jungles surrounding this bullet-pockmarked township on Monday, searching for gunmen who killed 12 in the second massacre blamed on gangs in recent weeks.

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BEELZEBUFO: Much like modern frogs, the creature had a wide mouth and powerful jaws, plus teeth, but also had grooves characteristic of some type of armor
A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago. It was intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.

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