2009年4月28日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Swine flu's ground zero? Townspeople are convinced (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:54 PM PDT

A woman stands outside the home of a child who, according to Veracruz state Governor Miguel Herrera survived the swine flu, as she waits with others for Herrera's arrival to La Gloria village in Mexico's Veracruz state, Monday, April 27, 2009. A fatal strain of swine flu has been detected in Mexico while the virus has been confirmed or suspected in at least a half-dozen other countries. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Everyone told Maria del Carmen Hernandez that her kindergartner's illness was a just a regular cold. But it seemed like the whole town of 3,000 was getting sick.

Mexicans put faith in masks — but do they work? (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:05 PM PDT

A man wearing a face mask holds a statue of Saint Jude, the saint of lost causes, outside the Saint Jude Thaddaeus church in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Despite the church closed doors and calls from authorities to leave due to the swine flu outbreak, hundreds of faithful arrived to pray and pay their respects to Saint Jude at the entrance of the church.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost causes, has been fitted with a light-blue surgical mask to ward off swine flu.

Mexico City shuts itself in amid swine flu fears (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:29 PM PDT

Cecilia Lopez, left, and her sister Angelica have breakfast at their home in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. For five long days, the only glimpse 9-year-old Cecilia has caught of her transformed city has been through the barred windows of her house. Her parents, like many across Mexico City, grounded her when swine flu hit. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Nine-year-old Cecilia Ines Lopez has been watching nine hours of television a day. Her teenage relative has spent so much time on Instant Messenger she complains she has nothing more to say.

No happily ever after yet for 'Slumdog' kid stars (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 01:26 PM PDT

Rubina Ali, child star of the hit movie 'Slumdog Millionaire,' right, wades through sewage water that has flooded her shanty, as her stepmother Munni, left, and father Rafiq Qureshi look on in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 27, 2009. Eight Oscars and US$326 million in box office receipts have so far done little to change the lives of the film's two impoverished child stars. Rubina and co-star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail still live in the same wretched slum they were born to, despite multiple offers of new houses and scholarships. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)AP - Rubina Ali's house is flooded with sewer water, and her feet itch. She's discovered a world of creepy-crawlies in the opaque gray water: scorpions, rats and slithery creatures with lots of legs.

Amnesty: Obama sends mixed message on human rights (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:18 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama has not yet managed to shake off the legacy of torture, impunity and unlawful detention he inherited from the previous U.S. administration, a leading human rights organization said Wednesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,278 (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at least 4,278 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Argentina suspends flights from Mexico (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:04 PM PDT

AP - Argentina announced Tuesday the suspension of flights from Mexico as a precaution against the spread of swine flu and called on tens of thousands of visitors from North America to contact the Health Ministry.

African immigrants risk lives on epic trek to U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Jailed repeatedly for his political views, Ethiopian immigrant Sharew paid smugglers around $10,000 to move him through a dozen countries and leave him a year later in the grubby southern Mexican city of Tapachula.

SKorean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:04 PM PDT

In this undated fluorescence photo released by the Seoul National University shows the world's first transgenic female beagle dog carrying fluorescent genes that make the canine glow red, named Ruppy in 2 days after birth at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. (AP Photo/ Seoul National University, HO)AP - South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. The four dogs, all named "Ruppy" — a combination of the words "ruby" and "puppy" — look like typical beagles by daylight.

Sydney power outage hits Australian Fashion Week (AFP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 09:02 PM PDT

An aerial view of Sydney. Australian Fashion Week ground to a halt, workers had to be evacuated and people were trapped in lifts after a power failure in central Sydney.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian Fashion Week ground to a halt, workers had to be evacuated and people were trapped in lifts after a power failure in central Sydney.

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