Miracle rescues in China quake
                   
news.com.au     20-May-2008            

Article from: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Chengdu A WOMAN who survived on rainwater and a man fed via a straw were today pulled out of the rubble eight days after China's earthquake but hopes faded for others as the death toll topped 40,000. Amid fears of new aftershocks among a... [read full story]                    


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