Child sued over woman’s death following bike crash

A New York has judge has ruled that a child can be sued for crashing a bicycle into an old woman, causing injuries that led to her death. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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Farewell to China’s World Expo

After six months of showcasing China’s rise in the world, the World Expo in Shanghai is at its end. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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Explosives found in Yemen cargo plane

Explosives were found in Dubai in a US-bound parcel that bore al-Qaeda hallmarks, Dubai police said.

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China reassures US on ‘rare earth’ minerals

China will continue to be a “reliable supplier” of so called “rare earth” minerals, which are key to the global high-tech industry. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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Family reunions between North and South Korea

North Korean troops fired two rounds towards a frontline unit at the border on Friday, and South Korean soldiers returned fire three times. (photo, from aljazeera.net)

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Ruler of UAE emirates of Ras al-Khaimah is dead

The ruler of the UAE emirate of Ras al-Khaimah died at dawn after several months in hospital, official reports say.

Sheikh Saqr bin Muhammad al-Qasimi (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk) was in his early 90s. A week of official mourning has been declared.

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US and EU worried about rare minerals

The shortage of rare earth metals from China could harm the US and the EU, they both warned. (photo, from bbcimg.co.uk)

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Haiti cholera cases spread to capital

Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, fears a cholera outbreak will spread rapidly among hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors who are sheltered in camps in the capital. (photo, from aljazeera.net)

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Albino boy dismembered

The dismembered body of a 9-year-old albino boy has been found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border, reports say. (map from cnn.com)

According to the head of Burundi’s albino association, the boy was taken from Makamba province in Burundi by a gang that crossed the border.

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Wikileaks released classified US documents on Iraq

As promised, on Friday Wikileaks released almost 400,000 classified US documents about the war in Iraq.

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website defended the release, arguing that the “intimate details” of the conflict were made public in an effort to reveal the truth about the conflict.

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