DANGER OVER: Helicopters were waiting for thick cloud to clear yesterday so they could rescue an Italian who survived an ice fall that left 11 climbers presumed dead
A frostbitten Italian climber limped into K2 base camp yesterday after an ice fall that killed 11 others, but swirling cloud prevented helicopters from plucking him from the world’s second-highest peak.

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Migrants from the Philippines and Indonesia who have flooded into Malaysian Borneo are being targeted with a massive deportation program, as the government comes under pressure to act.

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BOOGER LIVES AGAIN: A South Korean company used frozen ear tissue to produce five clones of a dog that had saved the life of his 58-year-old scriptwriter owner
A US woman blinked back tears of joy yesterday as she cuddled puppies cloned in South Korea from her beloved former pit bull terrier.

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Cambodia demanded yesterday that Thailand pull its troops back from a second temple site along their border, the latest in a series of territorial claims and counterclaims that have prompted armed tensions between the Asian neighbors.

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RESISTANCE: A Hamas spokesman said the group had uprooted the last Fatah stronghold in Gaza after detaining more than 100 Hilles clan members
The Islamic militant group Hamas has eliminated the last major pocket of armed resistance to 14 months of rule in Gaza, a top security official said on Monday, after Hamas forces seized mortars, mines and grenade launchers from a once powerful Fatah-allied clan.

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A South African judge said yesterday he was considering passing judgment next month on ruling party leader Jacob Zuma’s bid to have a graft case against him dismissed.

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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman will visit Damascus next week for talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, as the two neighbors move to establish diplomatic ties, an official said yesterday.

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VULNERABLE SPECIES: Primatologists meeting in Edinburgh said the world’s apes, monkeys and lemurs were being ‘eaten into extinction’
Nearly half of the world’s 634 types of primates are in danger of becoming extinct because of human activity, a scientific review presented yesterday showed.

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WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS: The Democratic presidential contender said that weaning the country off its addiction to oil would be a slow, expensive and painful experience
In a reversal, US Senator Barack Obama proposed on Monday that the government sell 70 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum stockpile to help reduce gasoline prices.

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The state of Alaska sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Monday, seeking to reverse his decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for Russia to restore its influential position in former Cold War ally Cuba, Russian news reports said on Monday.

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REASONABLE DOUBT: In attempts to show that their client is no hardened terrorist, Salim Hamdan's attorneys pointed to his cooperation in the hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2001
A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for a former driver and alleged bodyguard for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden yesterday as the US neared completion of its first “war crimes” trial since World War II.

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The family of a Pakistani neurosurgeon expressed shock yesterday after it emerged she had been extradited to the US on charges of shooting at US soldiers while in detention in Afghanistan.

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The winds were beginning to pick up and the surf was rising in Galveston early yesterday as Tropical Storm Edouard closed in on the Texas Gulf Coast.

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