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TOKYO, DEC 25: Four bodies were found Sunday in a car parked in a mountainous area near Tokyo, in an apparent group suicide, police said. The four - three men and a woman believed in their 20s to 30s - were found in the car, which was parked at an empty lot near a forested area in the Tokigawa Village just outside Tokyo, Saitama prefectural (state) police spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing departmental policy. The four were believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, he said. --AP
Eleven dead in a construction
accident in India
NEW DELHI, DEC 25: Eleven workers were killed and more than a dozen injured after being buried under debris at a construction site in India's capital city, police and news reports said Sunday. The workers were buried after loose earth at the site in the Jasola neighbourhood of New Delhi caved in on them late Saturday, according to police official Bhim Sain Basi. --AP
S Korean panel grills researcher over stemcell scam
SEOUL, Dec 25: South Korean investigators Sunday questioned a former key researcher on the team of disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk in their intensified probe into its fabricated stem cell research, reports said. A panel at Seoul National University quizzed Kim Seon-Jeong for several hours overnight, Yonhap news agency said. He has said he faked data for Hwang's 2005 paper published in the US journal Science on the orders of his then-boss. Kim arrived in South Korea late Saturday from his studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine but refused to talk to journalists. -- AFP
Libyan court orders retrial in Bulgarian AIDS case
TRIPOLI, Dec 25: Libya's supreme court ordered a retrial Sunday for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for their role in allegedly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus. The decision comes after impassioned international appeals for the release of the medics, who had been convicted in May 2004, and an announcement by Bulgaria it would create a fund for AIDS-infected children in Libya. -- AFP
Toxic slick no danger to marine life: Russian experts
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec 25: Experts voiced optimism Sunday that a toxic slick flowing down the Amur river in Russia's Far East region from China would not pose a danger to marine life when it reaches the sea. "The concentration of dangerous elements would be so insignificant by the time the river carries it into the sea, that it would be simply undetectable for the fish," said the chief of the Pacific fish industry research institute's department -- AFP
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