2009年5月6日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Plenty of flu caution as Mexico returns to work (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:39 PM PDT

People ride in a crowded subway, some wearing face masks as a precaution against swine flu contagion, in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 6, 2009.  Mexico ended a five-day, government-ordered shutdown designed to contain the swine flu virus outbreak.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - In gleaming office towers and gritty markets, Mexicans returned to work Wednesday after a five-day swine flu shutdown, and dozens returned to a heroes' welcome from "humiliating" quarantines in China. But Mexico's death toll rose, feeding fears of more infections now that crowds are gathering again.


Red Cross says dozens of Afghans killed in US raid (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Afghan villagers mark new burial site of victims who were allegedly killed during the coalition airstrikes in Bala Baluk district of Farah province, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The international Red Cross said Wednesday that its officials saw women and children among dozens of dead bodies in two villages in western Afghanistan targeted in U.S. bombing runs. (AP Photo)AP - Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans — including women and children — killed in American bombing runs. A former Afghan government official said up to 120 people may have died.


AP IMPACT: Mexico's weapons cache stymies tracing (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 01:59 PM PDT

In this April 24, 2009 photo, seized weapons sit on racks in a seized weapons warehouse at the Secretary of the Defense headquarters in Mexico City.  In all, the military has 305,424 confiscated weapons locked in vaults, just a fraction of those used by criminals in Mexico, where an offensive by drug cartels against the military has killed more than 10,750 people since December 2006.  The U.S. has acknowledged that many of the rifles, handguns and ammunition used by the cartels come from its side of the border. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Deep inside a heavily guarded military warehouse, the evidence of Mexico's war on drug cartels is stacked two stories high: tens of thousands of seized weapons, from handguns and rifles to AK-47s, some with gun sights carved into the shape of a rooster or a horse's head.


Here she comes: Saudi's Miss Beautiful Morals (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 12:08 PM PDT

Khadra al-Mubarak, left, shows potential contestant brochures of the 'Miss Beautiful Morals' contest at her office in Safwa in the eastern province, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Al-Mubarak is one of the organizers of the 'Miss Beautiful Morals' pageant, one that focuses on the female contestant's commitment to Islamic morals. The winning queen will be the one who exhibits the most devotion and respect for her parents irrespective of her looks. (AP Photo/Nissreen Aldar)AP - Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one can tell what she looks like. She also admits she's a little on the plump side.


Mexico gets back to normal, flu advances in Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2009 07:15 PM PDT

A policeman wearing a mask stands on duty outside a hotel in Hong Kong May 6, 2009. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - Mexicans got back into the swing of normal life on Wednesday after a five-day business shutdown due to the H1N1 flu virus, which spread in Europe with new infections in Poland and Sweden.


Israeli police bust Palestinians with ancient text (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 03:23 PM PDT

An ancient Hebrew document dated to the 2nd century A.D. is seen a day after it was seized by Israeli police officers, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Undercover Israeli officers foiled an attempt by two Palestinian men to sell an ancient, valuable papyrus document on the black market, police said Wednesday. The document, six inches by six inches (15 centimeters by 15 centimeters), contains 15 lines of Hebrew characters of a type also used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient holy books and apocalyptic treatises thought to have been collected by an ascetic Jewish sect two millennia ago, but is a a legal text apparently unrelated to the more famous scrolls. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Undercover Israeli officers foiled an attempt by two Palestinian men to sell an ancient, valuable papyrus document on the black market, police said Wednesday. The men were arrested at a Jerusalem hotel Tuesday after a sting operation lasting several weeks, police said. The 1,900-year-old Hebrew document, previously unknown and valued at millions of dollars, was rescued, and police showed it to reporters.


Some lawmakers allege fraud in Haiti election (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 07:07 PM PDT

AP - Some of Haiti's most powerful lawmakers are calling for last month's parliamentary elections to be thrown out because of allegations of voter fraud and political manipulation.

Zimbabwe activists released, IMF links resumed (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 01:43 PM PDT

Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko after being released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare.(AFP/Jekesai Njikizana)AFP - Zimbabwe authorities on Wednesday released 15 activists on bail and the IMF restored relations with Harare in moves that bolstered the troubled African nation's fragile unity government.


US, China leaders discuss North Korea, Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 06:27 PM PDT

File photo shows Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers at the AFP - President Barack Obama spoke by phone Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and shared his "concerns" over security issues including North Korea's nuclear program and deteriorating conditions in Pakistan, the White House said.


British man wins Australian island dream job (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2009 03:06 PM PDT

In this undated hand out picture supplied by Queensland Tourism, Ben Southall, 34, right, is seen on Daydream Island in Queensland, Australia having his picture taken. Southall, a  bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was on Wednesday, May 6, 2009  named the winner of what's been dubbed the 'Best Job in the World' , a 150,000 Australian dollar ($111,000) contract to serve as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island.(AP Photo/Queensland Tourism, Eddie Safarik, HO)AP - A bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was named the winner Wednesday of what's been dubbed the "Best Job in the World" — a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island. Ben Southall, 34, of Petersfield, beat out nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for the dream assignment to swim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for while writing a blog to promote the area.


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