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Alatanbagen Taoqi, 60, from China's ethnic Daur minority, was in an office building when it collapsed during the May 12 quake, The Nanjing Morning Post said. He was the only person in the building to survive, the report said.

In 1976, he survived an earthquake in Tangshan city in northeast China that killed almost a quarter of a million people. He was trapped under a pile of bricks for 10 days before being rescued, the paper reported

Police are hunting for the Muslim extremists who allegedly radicalised Nicky Reilly, the 22-year-old suspected of setting off a nail bomb in a restaurant yesterday.

Locals claimed that the 22-year-old changed his name to Mohammed Rasheed last year and would meet men in a cafe and at the King’s Fry fish and chip bar near his home in Plymouth, Devon.

Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville last night launched a plea for information on Mr Reilly's movements and took the unusual step of releasing a picture to assist the investigation.

He said: "Our investigation so far indicates Reilly, who has a history of mental illnesss had adopted the Islamic faith.

Fritzl, an electrical engineer and businessman, faces charges of incest, abduction and imprisonment and could serve 15 years in jail if convicted. He is on suicide watch.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Hi my name is David
I am studying japanese.
This site is all about the Japanese language.
You can learn it online right here.
posted by David at 3:28 AM

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Monday, September 10, 2001
testing
posted by General at 7:29 AM

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Sunday, November 03, 2002
folks, finally, the news of the bloggers has reached me!
i will report everything about korea. what's happening. what this country is like.
what are the things the koreans say, etc., etc.
posted by Jihwan at 11:34 PM

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Tuesday, April 17, 2001
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posted by Jack at 8:51 PM

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scrutinized
To look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Of accounts and tax returns; with the intent to verify
posted by Peppermint at 17:56

The Technik Museum Speyer bought the decommissioned Buran space shuttle and had it shipped from a junkyard in Bahrain to Rotterdam.

After arriving in Rotterdam last week, the 37-meter (121-feet) shuttle was re-assembled and lowered onto a raft of barges for its trip through the Rhine to Speyer. The shuttle began the 620-kilometer (385-mile) journey upriver on Sunday.

The Buran -- the name means "blizzard" in Russian -- was built by the Soviet Union as a near-copy of the American space shuttles that made its first flight in 1977. The Soviet Union feared that US space shuttles would be used for military purposes, and began developing their own copycat spacecraft technology in the late 1970s.

The shuttle which is on its way to Speyer is named the Analog Buran. One of several test models, it made 25 suborbital flights between 1985 and 1988, before the program was abandoned as the Soviet Union broke apart.

A decade later, a team of Australian entrepreneurs purchased the Analog Buran and put it on display during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. However poor ticket sales grounded their plans to take the shuttle on tour, and it sat neglected for a year until a new company purchased it and moved it to Bahrain. There, it anchored an exhibit during a summer festival in 2002, before being shipped to a junkyard to wait out a legal dispute between its new owners and its Russian manufacturers.

The museum is building a new exhibition hall to house the Russian space shuttle alongside items like space suits and model satellites. "Apollo and Beyond," as the permanent exhibit will be called, is scheduled to open to visitors this summer.

A professional egg thief who illegally collected more than 7,000 birds' eggs has been jailed for 23 weeks.

Richard Pearson, 41, of Phelps Place, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, had eggs from many rare birds such as golden eagles, peregrine falcons and ospreys.

At Skegness Magistrates' Court Pearson admitted five charges of illegally stealing and possessing the eggs - one of the largest hauls ever recovered.

The prosecution likened his collection of illegal eggs to "Aladdin's cave".

In addition to the jail sentence, Pearson was ordered to pay costs of £1,500.