KENGTUNG, Myanmar — A Myanmar negotiator says ethnic Shan rebels have agreed in a second round of talks that there will be no more fighting between the guerrillas and government troops.
It is the latest reported agreement between Myanmar’s new reform-minded government and various ethnic rebels.
BEIJING — A Chinese coal miner has been rescued after being trapped underground for 17 days by an underground flood that killed at least 10 others.
State television and the official Xinhua News Agency say rescuers brought 39-year-old Si Li out of the Junyuan No. 2 Coal Mine in the northeastern city of Hegang on Saturday. The reports Sunday said he was hospitalized in stable condition.
(AP) TORONTO – The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant has lost her bid to win the title.
Jenna Talackova, 23, competed with 61 contestants Saturday night. She was among the final 12 contestants.
(AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti moved to crack down on a band of former and would-be soldiers who had been staging protests for more than a year, closing two old military bases they had occupied and locking up dozens of participants in a pro-army march including two Americans.
MUNICH — Lots of money, lots of luck, and players who didn’t care about winning ugly — just so long as they won — turned Chelsea into the champions of Europe.
The money, of course, is Roman Abramovich’s. The billionaire finally got his hands on the shiny trophy with big ears he so coveted. A bargain at $1.2 billion and counting.
