Castro absent from parade
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not present as a military parade marking his 80th birthday began yesterday in Havana's main square.
Pollution crisis undermining growth - official
China faces an environmental crisis that threatens to wipe out much of the gains of three decades of economic growth, one of China's most outspoken environment officials said in comments published yesterday.
Fortune-tellers avoid election disputes
Many Venezuelans are looking anxiously to tarot cards and crystal balls to reveal the winner of tomorrow's presidential election, but seers are not about to risk plunging into the country's polarised politics.
Mubarak fears 'battlefield' if Lebanon protests continue
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said yesterday he feared continued street demonstrations, especially if they became sectarian, could turn Lebanon into a battlefield.
International briefs
Distraught survivors searched piles of bodies for the faces of their loved ones in the central Philippines yesterday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Durian left hundreds dead.
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