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F/A-18 Hornets at the Tuscaloosa Regional Air Show in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 30, 2012

A rescue worker carries the body of a child who was recovered from the rubble a day after the collapse of a residential building in Thane district, on the outskirts of Mumbai April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed residential...

Sandhya, a four-year-old girl who was injured during the collapse of a residential building, rests with a social worker on a hospital bed in Thane district, on the outskirts of Mumbai April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui Rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed residential...

A girl who was injured during the collapse of a residential building, lies on a hospital bed in Thane district, on the outskirts of Mumbai April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui A rescue worker takes a break on the rubble of a collapsed residential building during a search for survivors in...

Rescue workers watch as rubble is shifted by earthmoving equipment at the site of the collapse of a residential building in Thane district, on the outskirts of Mumbai April 6, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash Rescue workers use a stretcher to carry the body of a victim across the rubble after...

People walk past an illegal building which was demolished in the "Lucky Compound", where a building collapsed last week, in Thane district on the outskirts of Mumbai April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash Two children stand in the hallway of a flat in an illegal building located next to site...

Sania, 25, sits underneath a line of clothes hung up to dry in the living room of their flat in an illegal building located next to the site of a building which collapsed last week, in Thane district on the outskirts of Mumbai April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash A woman tends to a baby...

Afreen (R), 12, sits as her niece Anam, 2, sleeps on a mattress on the floor of their flat in an illegal building in which he lives in Thane district on the outskirts of Mumbai April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash An illegal building which was demolished in the "Lucky Compound", where a...

An elevated view shows illegal buildings (painted white) in the Bholenath Nagar area in Thane district on the outskirts of Mumbai April 10, 2013. A shortage of affordable housing in Indian cities has led to rampant illegal construction by developers using cheap materials and shoddy methods in...

Michael Jordan countersued by Chinese copycat brand Staff Reporter 2013-04-10 10:35 A Qiaodan Sports store in Shanghai. (Photo/CFP) Chinese sportswear brand Qiaodan Sports, which was sued by Michael Jordan last year for unauthorized use of his name, has filed a countersuit against the...

PLA Navy has extended its range to Arabian Sea : Report Staff Reporter 2013-04-10 08:49 A Chinese Type 094 nuclear submarine. The PLA Navy has already projected its power as far as the Arabian Sea, writes J Michael Cole in the Diplomat, a Tokyo-based online current affairs magazine, in a...

Hot-selling face masks ineffective against H7N9 bird flu Staff Reporter 2013-04-10 15:13 A child feeds pigeons in Shanxi. (File photo/CNS) Sales of face masks have increased dramatically since the H7N9 outbreak surfaced in China. The masks provide nothing more than psychological comfort...

North Korea has armed militia of 900,000: report Staff Reporter 2013-04-10 13:52 South Korean soldiers in the DMZ that marks the border with the North. (Photo/CFP) The Korean peninsula is inching closer to war as the Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea has armed a militia of 900,000 men...

China charges former rail minister with graft By Terril Yue Jones and Ben Blanchard BEIJING | Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:10am EDT (Reuters) - China formally charged a former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, with corruption and abuse of power on Wednesday, setting up the first test of newly installed...

China halts some overland tourism to North Korea-travel agencies By Maxim Duncan DANDONG, China | Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:03am EDT (Reuters) - Some Chinese tour operators have halted travel to North Korea at the behest of local authorities and because of rising safety concerns as Pyongyang whips...

A Muslim woman makes snacks near a mosque at a Muslim area in Yangon, April 6, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

A Muslim man sells breakfast near a mosque at a Muslim area in Yangon, April 6, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

Fear stalks Yangon's Muslims after Buddhist-led killings By Jared Ferrie YANGON | Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:01am EDT (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of...