* China: The official death toll of a 6.9-magnitude earthquake is at 589 while rescuers keep struggling to find any remaining survivors. (Check this out if you wish to help Chinese relief efforts).* U.S.: Attorney General Eric Holder has not eliminated the chance that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be tried in New York.
* Britain: A local department store apologized and withdrew sales of padded bikinis made for girls.
* Italy: The country’s Supreme Court rejected gay marriage by calling requests for such arrangements “not admissible” and “unfounded.”
Image – New York Times (“The rubble near a destroyed building after an earthquake at Jiegu Town in Yushu county, a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in western Qinghai Province of northwest China on Wednesday.”)
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