2008年10月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Russian forces in Georgia appear to begin pullout (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:49 AM CDT

Russian soldiers pack up at the Georgian village of Karaleti, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Russia must pull out of territory surrounding the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Friday under agreements reached after its war with Georgia. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Russian forces began the final stage of a pullback from positions outside Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint as EU monitors looked on. A Russian general said the withdrawal would be completed Wednesday.

US, Japan favored for Nobel chemistry prize (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:45 AM CDT

AP - U.S. and Japanese researchers are among the favorites to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, but don't expect any recent discoveries to get the nod.

Calm returns to Bangkok after deadly rioting (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:55 AM CDT

Anti-government protesters rest in front of their compound early Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand, after clashes with police killed at least two people and left dozens injured. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)AP - Soldiers stood guard on street corners Wednesday as an uneasy calm returned to Bangkok after fierce clashes between anti-government protesters and police left at least two dead and more than 400 injured.

Norbert strengthens into Category 2 hurricane (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:40 AM CDT

This NOAA satellite image show Tropical Storm Marco (lower-L) as it approaches the eastern coast of Mexico. Marco made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, crashing ashore as the latest in a series of powerful storms to strike the region this hurricane season, US forecasters said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)AP - Hurricane Norbert strengthened into a powerful Category 2 storm over the Pacific Ocean and forecasters warned that it could reach Mexico's Baja California peninsula by the weekend.

China sets melamine levels for milk products (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III holds a 'JollyCow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk' from China that was tested positive for melamine during a news conference Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine health secretary says traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been found in the third Chinese-made milk product sold in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - China on Wednesday introduced standards for levels of the industrial chemical melamine permitted in milk and food products as it seeks to rein in a festering safety scare.

Volvo Cars to cut some 3,000 more jobs (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:44 AM CDT

Beleaguered Swedish car maker Volvo, a unit of US auto giant Ford, said Wednesday it planned to cut more than 3,000 jobs in Sweden and abroad in addition to the 2,000 cuts announced earlier this year.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - Beleaguered Swedish car maker Volvo, a unit of US auto giant Ford, said Wednesday it planned to cut more than 3,000 jobs in Sweden and abroad in addition to the 2,000 cuts announced earlier this year.

Syrian troops gather on Lebanese border (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 02:02 AM CDT

Syrian soldiers are seen near vehicles and tents they erect as part of their troop buildup on the Syrian side along Lebanon's northern Abboudiyeh border crossing, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. The recent Syrian troop buildup has Lebanese anti-Syrian politicians worried that Damascus could intervene militarily in Lebanon. The U.S. State Department on Monday said it was concerned by the Syrian military activity. 'Any intervention by Syrian troops into Lebanon would be unacceptable,' deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters in Washington. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - A few tents and trucks dotting a green hill across the river are about all that is visible of a Syrian troop deployment on Lebanon's northern border — a buildup that has raised concerns of a possible Syrian incursion.

Half-ton Mexican man dies after pleading for help (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 11:48 PM CDT

Jose Luis Garza, 47, lies in his bed in his home in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. Garza is getting diet advice from Manuel Uribe, a fellow Mexican who has been fighting to lose his title as the world's heaviest man. Both men live around the Monterrey area and are bed-ridden. (AP Photo/Monica Rueda)AP - A 450-kilogram (990-pound), bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.

Ivory Coast land tensions fester ahead of polls (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2008 07:26 PM CDT

A boy from the ethnic Guere grinds rice near his mother at Fengolo, a village in western Ivory Coast September 23, 2008. As the world's top cocoa grower moves falteringly towards presidential elections, scheduled for Nov. 30 but likely to be delayed, old wounds over land disputes still fester, especially in the western reaches near the border with Liberia. Picture taken September 23, 2008. To match feature AFRICA-LAND/IVORYCOAST (Luc Gnago/Reuters)Reuters - The road that snakes past stalls piled with bananas, charcoal and dried fish through Fengolo village in western Ivory Coast looks peaceful.

Nikkei plunges 9.4 percent, biggest one-day fall since '87 (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:35 AM CDT

A trader works on the trading floor of Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. in Tokyo, October 7, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - The Nikkei average plunged 9.4 percent on Wednesday, wiping out $250 billion in market value in its biggest drop since the 1987 stock market crash, on growing fears of a global recession and a spike in the yen.

Computer glitch may have caused Qantas plunge: investigator (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2008 01:25 AM CDT

Map locating Learmonth (near the town of Exmouth) airbase in Western Australia where a Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing following a mid-air incident that caused injury to 36 passengers and crew members.(AFP Graphic/Martin Megino)AFP - A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.

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