Chinese top leaders call for efforts to aid quake zone
8 September Xinhua ,BBC
President Hu Jintao and other top leaders called
for immediate efforts to help with disaster relief work in southwest
China, where multiple earthquakes have killed at least 67 people.Hu,
who is in Russia's city of Vladivostok for an annual economic
leaders' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
forum,
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Babies learn humour from parents
8 September Daily Telegraph
Children get their sense of humour from their
parents as a study has found babies as young as six months learn to
laugh at the same thing as their mothers and fathers.Researchers
discovered that between the ages of six months and one year, small
children learn what is absurdly funny by watching the reaction of
their parents.
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Rescuers hunt for survivors as China quake toll hits 80
YILIANG, China, Sept 8 (AFP)
Rescuers searching for survivors from twin
earthquakes that struck southwestern China battled blocked roads and
downed communications Saturday as the death toll rose to 80. Scores
of people were leaving their homes in the mountainous border area of
Yunnan and Guizhou provinces,
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