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H7N9 patient saved from death bed Updated: 2013-05-03 19:59 ( Xinhua) HANGZHOU - A man who contracted H7N9 bird flu was discharged from hospital in East China's Zhejiang province on Friday after facing death for days. The 38 year old, surnamed Cao, is the first H7N9 patient with severe...

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Corey Donaldson, the 'Australian Robin Hood' found guilty in US Peter Mitchell AAP May 03, 20138:12AM Australian Corey Allan Donaldson, shown arriving at a bank in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which he admitted robbing on New Year's Eve. Source: Supplied A JURY in the United States has taken just...

'Shameless' British fraudster jailed for selling fake bomb detectors LONDON | Thu May 2, 2013 8:56am EDT (Reuters) - A British businessman was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Thursday after a judge described him as having "blood on his hands" for selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq and...

Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam appears briefly in court By Ghaith Shennib ZINTAN, Libya | Thu May 2, 2013 8:25am EDT (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town of Zintan, where he had been held since his capture by former...

Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) was formed in 1971 by a group of people who campaigned for a fair social system. Through the promotion of civil rights and organising affected people, they fight for people's rights and equality for all members of society. Picture: Benny...

The smallest apartment the Society of Community Organisation visited was 28 square feet, rented by an unemployed single man. Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

"By taking these photos of inadequate housing we want to arouse public and government concern over the issue. These people have to afford an expensive rent rate; it equals to approximately £6-7.50 per square foot per month and sometimes have to wait years for public rental housing because there...

Ho Hei-Wah, Director of SoCO, says: "Hong Kong is regarded as one of the richest cities in the world; however, lurking beneath this prosperity is also extreme poverty. Hundreds of thousands of people still live in caged homes and wood-partitioned cubicles, while the unemployed, new-arrived...

A family eat dinner in their cramped apartment in Hong Kong. The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) has released a set of overhead images of low-income families, singletons, elderly and unemployed people living in urban slums to highlight the housing problem in Hong Kong. Picture: Benny...

Burma Muslim Face Uncertain Future After Attacks By AP / TODD PITMAN and YADANA HTUN May 01, 2013 A firefighter runs towards a burning stock of hay which belongs to a Muslim household in Okkan, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Rangoon, Myanmar. Buddhist mobs hurling bricks...

Two gay couples hold a ceremonial wedding at a shopping plaza to raise awareness of gay marriage in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on March 8, 2011 A couple poses with a picture board displaying a wedding portrait of gay grooms in central Beijing on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2011

China’s Gays and Lesbians Join the Global Debate on Same-Sex Marriage By Chengcheng Jiang May 01, 20132 Comments Elsie Liao, left, and Ma Yuyu kiss in an alley outside the registry office where they asked to be married, before being turned away, in Beijing on Feb. 25, 2013 ED JONES /...

Hong Kong Refuses to Donate to Sichuan Ya’an Earthquake Relief by Fauna on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 On NetEase & Sina: Some Hong Kongers Refuse to Donate for Disaster Relief, Claims Mainland Donations Lack Supervision Original Title: Minority of Hong Kongers Boycott Donating for Disaster...

School Issues Reminder To Students Not To Kill Themselves by Beth on Monday, April 29, 2013 When a netizen called blackpepper30 tweeted a picture of a handout given to Japanese high-school students in an unknown Japanese school, the tweet was soon re-posted on 2ch.net, where it quickly...

China's emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city By Ben Blanchard DANDONG, China | Wed May 1, 2013 4:15am EDT (Reuters) - Peering at graphic pictures of supposed U.S. biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean War, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign...

CORRECTED-Earthquake measuring 5.7 strikes northern India - USGS Wed May 1, 2013 4:42am EDT (Corrects day, location of quake) May 1 (Reuters) - A shallow earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 struck in northern India on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was only...