Some 190 people injured in the subway train collision in Shanghai have been discharged from hospital, while another 95 are still receiving medical treatment.

Doctors say most of the injuries were bruises and bone fractures, but there were also external head traumas.

Reports of a passenger pregnant with twins aroused public concern, but doctors says both the woman and her children are safe. 

The crash occurred yesterday afternoon following a signal system failure at a station on the Line 10 subway.

 

 

China's first space lab module to be launched on Sept. 29

China's first space lab module Tiangong-1 is scheduled to be launched Thursday night.

A spokesman for China's manned space flight project says the launch window will open between 9:16 p.m. and 9:31 p.m.

The unmanned module will conduct docking experiments after entering orbit.

 

 

Four rescued in NE China mine flood, two confirmed dead

Four miners were rescued after being trapped for over 31 hours in a flooded mine pit in northwest China's Heilongjiang Province.

Another two are dead and their bodies have been recovered.

The flood occurred early Tuesday at the mine in the city of Shuangyashan. 

Twenty-eight miners were working underground at the time and 22 managed to escape.

 

 

Yemeni army's chopper shot down near Sanaa

Yemen's opposition militants say they have shot down a military helicopter in the troubled district of Nihm in northeast Sanaa province, where government forces have been battling the opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule for months. 

An official of the militants say they shot down the chopper while it was launching strikes against their villages. 

The pilot managed to escape unharmed.

Yemen's Defense Ministry has confirmed that one of its aircraft was shot down in Nihm.

 

 

Up to 16 killed in listeria outbreak in U.S.

In the United States, up to 16 people have been killed and around 70 others sickened in 18 states in a listeria outbreak traced to Colorado cantaloupes.

The US CDC says it's the most deadly outbreak of food-borne infection in the country since 1998.

It says all of the illnesses started on or after July 31 and the outbreak is still widening.

Listeria is a common bacterium but can cause severe illness in older people and those with compromised immune systems.

 

 

Bolivian interior minister resigns over protest crackdown

Bolivia's interior minister has resigned following harsh criticism over Sunday's violent crackdown on indigenous protesters in the country's remote Amazon region. 

Sacha Llorenti is the third minister who resigned from President Evo Morales' cabinet, joining her deputy and the defense minister.

The protesters were trying to block the construction of a highway that would pass right through their territory. 

Police fired tear gas and arrested hundreds of activists. 

President Morales has suspended the road project until a referendum is held.

 

 

Henry Tang quits as HK chief secretary

Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Henry Tang has resigned.

The move is believed to pave the way for him to contest the Chief Executive election next year.

 

 

China's economic growth rate to reach 9 pct in 2011: official

A senior Chinese official says the country's economic growth rate is expected to exceed nine percent this year.

Lu Zhongyuan, deputy director of the State Council Development Research Center, also says there's no need to worry about a "hard landing" for the Chinese economy, stating that recent slowdowns in growth are within the "normal scope." 

Lu says slower growth rates will actually help China to contain rising prices and readjust the country's economic structure.

 

 

Michael Jackson's doctor goes on trial

Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray has gone on trial in Los Angeles, charged with involuntary manslaughter of the singer.

Prosecutors said he acted with "gross negligence" and gave Jackson a lethal dose of the sedative propofol that caused his death in June 2009.

The defense said Jackson gave himself too much of the drug, a sleeping aid.

58-year-old Murray denies the charge. If convicted, he could face four years in jail and the loss of his medical license.

 

 

Defunct satellite fell into South Pacific: NASA

The US space agency NASA says debris from a defunct satellite fell in a remote area of the South Pacific on midnight Saturday.

The agency says the debris field was over a broad, remote ocean area in the Southern Hemisphere, far from any major land mass. 

NASA scientists had estimated a 1-in-3,200 chance a satellite part could hit someone on earth.

 

 

First Boeing 787 dreamliner arrives in Japan

The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft ordered by Japan's All Nippon Airways has arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport.

The next-generation, fuel-efficient aircraft will make the world's first commercial flight between Tokyo and Hong Kong as a chartered plane on Oct. 26. 

The delivery of the 787 has been delayed for three years.