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  • China says quake toll could top 50,000

    A family grieves after the body of their daughter was discovered at a collapsed primary school after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Hanwang in Sichuan Province, on May 15, 2008.  China's biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. Troops and rescue teams struggled by air, land and water to reach areas of southwestern China stricken by the huge quake that demolished schools, homes and factories.       AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)The death toll from China's massive earthquake could reach more than 50,000, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, quoting rescue headquarters.


  • Winding road becomes China lifeline

    Survivors carry an injured man past a billboard reading "Welcome to Wenchuan" displayed along a badly damaged mountain road in Wenchuan County, as they leave from the earthquake epicenter of Wenchuan City on May 14, 2008 three days after an earthquake measuring 7.9 rocked southwest China's Sichuan province. On the road to the epicentre of China's horror earthquake, shell-shocked survivors carried out the bodies of victims while others walked the other way in hopes of finding their missing relatives. AFP PHOTO/TEH Eng Koon (Photo credit should read TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images)The road leading to the epicenter of Monday's massive Chinese earthquake still wasn't clear of obstacles, but stretches of it have been transformed into major staging areas.


  • Girl's legs are amputated to gain freedom

    A rescuer carries high-school student Yang Liu (C), wearing a helmet, from the rubble after doctors amputated her legs to free her at a collapsed school in the township of Hanwang, in Mianzhu city north of Chengdu, Sichuan Province May 15, 2008. China poured more troops into the earthquake-ravaged province of Sichuan to speed up the search for survivors as time ran out for thousands of people buried under rubble and mud.      REUTERS/Bobby Yip  (CHINA)Chinese doctors amputated a teenage girl's crushed legs on Thursday, the only way they could pull her alive from the wreckage of her school three days after an earthquake flattened swathes of the country's southwest.


  • Obama blasts Bush over 'Nazi' comments

    In this Friday, May 9, 2008 picture, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a rally in the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore. Oregon is fertile ground for Obama, the self-described "change" candidate. The state that has led the way in everything from bike trails to assisted suicide is also the first to vote entirely by mail. Oregon's 2 million-plus voters began receiving ballots more than two weeks ago, and 22 percent have returned them, according to the secretary of state's office. The Democratic presidential candidate interpreted the president's remark to Israel's Knesset as a slam against him, but the White House denied the comment was in any way directed at the Illinois senator.


  • CBS buying CNet Networks for $1.8 billion
    Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash.
  • Firefighters get upper hand on Fla. wildfire

    Dry, windy conditions fuel several wildfires along the state’s Atlantic coast.Firefighters made major gains against a wildfire that has charred thousands of acres along the Atlantic coast as police questioned a man seen tossing a Molotov cocktail into nearby woods.


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