Bird flu kills one
BIRD FLU has killed at least one person in China, officials said on Wednesday, confirming the spread of the deadly virus into people in another large Asian country where it might prove hard to contain.
Election commission opens fraud complaints investigation
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP): ELECTION OFFICIALS began investigating fraud complaints yesterday by soccer superstar turned presidential candidate George Weah, who alleges poll workers stuffed ballot boxes for his opponent in Liberia's first post war election.
Tropical depression weakens
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP): A TROPICAL depression that had threatened to become yet another named storm in an already record-breaking season dissipated yesterday over the southern Caribbean Sea following its damaging passage over the Windward Islands.
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