Cruise ship that crashed into rocks off Italian
island:
My husband saved my life before drowning - Survivor
Italy: A Costa Concordia survivor has told how
her husband saved her life before drowning - because there was
‘nobody there’ to save him. Frenchwoman Nicole Servel, 61, said
Francis Servel, 71, gave her his lifejacket before they leapt off
the sinking cruise ship.
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Monitors call for UN access to Darfur
Sudan: UN peacekeepers must have unrestricted
access within Sudan's troubled Darfur region, international monitors
overseeing a peace deal for the area said on Monday.The call came
after the United Nations in New York said last week the government
in Khartoum was “severely” restricting movement of the UN's
blue-helmeted troops in Darfur,
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China’s city dwellers overtake rural population
China: China said yesterday the number of people
living in cities exceeded the rural population for the first time, a
historic shiftthat experts said would put a strain on society and
the environment. The change marks a turning point for China,
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