- Death toll in China earthquake rises to 8,533
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.8337657595294ead961b9617b2f316c3.china_earthquake_xin106.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=QFZqN9VZz2zaLCFvp47p5g--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this photo distributed by the official Xinhua news agency, rescuers search for students at Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan City, about 100 kilometers from the epicenter in Wenchuan county of southwest China's Sichuan province, on Monday May 12, 2008. Nearly 900 students here were feared buried when a high school building collapsed in the earthquake, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)" border="0" /></a>AP - A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported.</p><br clear="all"/>
- Clinton Deadline Looms for Recouping $11 Million Personal Loan
(Bloomberg)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080512/pl_bloomberg/as5a58ks7ky8"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080511/capt.79661ff0cf454cac9645863792b18bbb.clinton_2008_wvea115.jpg?x=116&y=130&q=85&sig=iYHNCTU2OB1Apzgd_C73rA--" align="left" height="130" width="116" alt="Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts as she speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Grafton, W. Va. Sunday, May 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)" border="0" /></a>Bloomberg - May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton may have a financial
incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And
she has Senator John McCain to thank for it.</p><br clear="all"/>
- Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/wl_nm/poland_sendler_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080512/2008_05_12t115046_308x450_us_poland_sendler.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=EhQZ4mqGQi6qvHXkz8f4HQ--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Nobel Peace Prize nominee Irena Sendler poses at her home in central Warsaw, March 14, 2007. Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said. (Katarina Stoltz/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved
thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling
them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on
Monday after a long illness, local media said.</p><br clear="all"/>
- EPA testing air after twister in toxic Okla. town
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080511/capt.370295c9167041d8b8318e60f39de5eb.severe_weather__momg105.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=O6GtOcvNA8C_pt1W0H51HQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Malinda Gonzales stands in what used to be her home in Racine, Mo, on Sunday, May 11, 2008. Gonzales, her children and her parents, survived a deadly tornado on Saturday afternoon, May 10, by huddling under a tractor outside their home. None of them were injured. (AP Photo/Mike Gullett)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Environmental Protection Agency was preparing to conduct air and soil tests to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through Picher, a town so polluted with lead-filled mining waste that it's a Superfund site.</p><br clear="all"/>
- US airlifts aid to Myanmar, UN urges junta to cooperate
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/myanmar"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080512/capt.77fecc268cc84971b5cdb84ed94923e4.thailand_us_myanmar_xws109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0YFcHJn0Ph5IJk3lAfQA9g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. Marine based in Guam, Aerial Porter MSgt. Todd Kneisley, of Defiance, Ohio, front, helps crewmen load a C-130 cargo plane with supplies bound for cyclone devastated Myanmar in Utapao Air Base near the southern city of Rayong, Thailand, Monday, May 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)" border="0" /></a>AP - The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the U.N. urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.</p><br clear="all"/>
- Thousands dead in Chinese quake
At least 8,500 people are killed by a strong earthquake in south-western China, state media says.
- Brown ally attacks rebel MP Field
Gordon Brown's closest ally, Ed Balls, suggests that rebel Labour MP Frank Field is a loner acting dishonourably.
- Mother's horror at bakery murder
The mother of Jimmy Mizen, stabbed to death at a baker's shop, speaks of her shock, horror and pain following his death.
- Brown vows to make care 'fairer'
Gordon Brown pledges to reform the social care system to cope with England's ageing population.
- Stone 'planned to kill SF leader'
Loyalist Michael Stone planned to slit the throats of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, a court hears.
- Cameron urges aid drops for Burma
Aid should be dropped by air into Burma if access to the cyclone-hit country does not improve, David Cameron says.
- Babies' remains discovered in box
The remains of two babies are found in a box at a house in Greater Manchester, police reveal.
- MPs debating embryology changes
MPs have begun debating controversial proposals to change the law on the use of human embryos.
- Inquest hears Nimrod recordings
A recording from an RAF Nimrod taken moments before it exploded is played at an inquest to the families of the 14 men who died.
- Mystery to men
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