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Three people were killed and six injured Friday afternoon after toxic gas leaked from a chemical plant in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said. The accident occurred at 5:15 p.m. when Xiangtan City's Huaye Electrolytic Manganese Co. was experimenting a new product, said a spokesman with the city's publicity department. The six injured were sent to the hospital. People in and around the plant were evacuated, the spokesman said. Local environmental protection and health ...

The future of NATO, its defense functions and foreign missions as well as relations with the EU and Russia and new strategies were the subject of a Thursday Warsaw Transatlantic Forum. "NATO needed strong alliance ties to meet its collective defense functions," Polish defense minister Bogdan Klich noted at the forum, hosted by the Euroatlantic Association, the Polish foreign and defense ministries and NATO. Klich spoke out for reforming the Alliance's inner structure, especially its over-b ...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday declared state of calamity in the southern Philippines. But Arroyo's spokesperson, Ricardo Saludo, has ruled out any price cap on oil prices. Saludo said the President is expected to sign the draft proclamation on Friday before it would be released. The government was banking on Arroyo to declare a state of calamity to help solve the worsening power situation on the island, which has been hit by brownouts lasting eight to 10 hour ...

China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd (CGGC), one of the largest engineering and construction companies involved in the Three Gorges Dam project, said overseas contracts are likely to take up half of its business in the future, according to its president Yang Jixue. "Overseas markets will account for 50 percent of our business in the next three years, from the current 36 percent, boosted by massive projects in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia regions," Yang said. The group now has 44 overs ...

AP - LaDainian Tomlinson is coming to Minnesota for a visit, and the Vikings believe he could be a good fit.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that he is "deeply concerned" about the ethnic and religious violence in Nigeria where hundreds of people were murdered over the weekend. "I am deeply concerned that there has been more inter-religious violence with an appalling loss of life," Ban told reporters. "I appeal to all concerned to exercise maximum restraint." On Sunday morning, Islamist pastoralists wielding machetes attacked the town of Jos, a Christian village in Nigeria's Plate ...

NIGEL Carr has given the current Irish team an unqualified endorsement by lauding them as the most consistent side ever to have represented Ireland.

Iraq's national parliamentary election started on the early morning of March 7 as sounds of strings of bombings waked Baghdad. &$ &$An Iraqi woman gets her finger inked at a polling station in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on March 7, 2010. Iraqis went to polls on Sunday for the parliamentary election. This is the second national poll since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime from U.S.-led invasion in 2003.(Xinhua/Zhang Ning ...

The novice chase at Naas tomorrow will make for compulsive viewing, with the hugely frustrating Zaarito bidding to erase the memory of two bad falls.

The supply line would come from the Caspian Sea region and bypass Russia and Ukraine, whose bickering in the past has interrupted supplies to Europe.

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) -- Nearly four years after Dayton Moore was hired to turn the Kansas City Royals around, they still aren't turned.

Playbill - The 34th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays launches Lisa Dillman's Ground, a play about family and cultural politics, March 2 at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

After suffering a 2-1 loss to Santos on Sunday, Corinthians' star striker Ronaldo left the field with injury aggravated. Ronaldo complained about the calls from the referees as well as the unprofessionalism of some of the Santos players. Sunday's 11th round match in the Sao Paulo state championship began tense and escalated into the second half when two Corinthian players were ejected from the match: Roberto Carlos and Moacir. “With a one-goal lead and a two-player advantage, I saw so ...

So, only England stand between France and their first Grand Slam since 2004. It is true that France still have to overcome Italy in Paris next match up, but it is inconceivable that they will let that one slip. But England, also at the Stade de France? That could be a different matter entirely.

Foreign investment in Russia slumped 21 percent in 2009 to 81.9 billion U.S. dollars, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said Saturday. In the same period, foreign direct investment dropped 41 percent to 15.9 billion dollars, portfolio investment fell 37.7 percent to 882 million dollars, and other investment was down 13.5 percent to 65.14 billion dollars, Rosstat said. Accumulated foreign investment in the Russian economy increased 1.4 percent to 268.2 billion dollars in 2009. ...

THE MANILA INTERNATIONAL Airport Authority (Miaa) is confident that four new international carriers will start flying out of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 3 by the end of the year.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday assigned rookie center Hasheem Thabeet to the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League on Thursday.

NewsFactor - Nintendo on Thursday revealed its next wave of products. The video-game maker is also planning to release Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M in the first half of 2010, but Nintendo DSi XL is taking the spotlight -- and entering the e-reader market.

Listed Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) has been given a credit line worth P250 million by a local bank, which the port operator plans to tap to fund projects in the next five years.

AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday he was "confident" diplomacy could resolve a standoff with Argentina on the Falklands, as islanders voiced disappointment at tensions over oil drilling.