China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, the only two people sentenced to death in a scheme to water down infant formula with an industrial chemical that left at least six children dead and sickened more than 300,000. (Nov. 24)
Some 25 hours after a crowded ferry sank off Indonesia's Sumatra island, a woman has been pulled from the choppy waters. At least 29 people drowned and 20 others are missing after the ferry was hit by towering waves during an inter-island trip....
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Police and army experts are inspecting about 1,800 bridges in northern England, after floods destroyed several river crossings. A police officer was swept to his death Friday when a major bridge collapsed near Cockermouth, the hardest-hit town....
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Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle with a 60-39 vote in the Senate. The measure is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it. (Nov. 21)