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Obama to reach delegate milestone today, but will still be short of nomination

Televised warning about new aftershocks sparks panic in China earthquake zone

Taiwan inaugurates new president amid pledges to boost economic ties with rival China

Barack Obama will reach a significant milestone Tuesday as he marches toward the Democratic nomination for president - a majority of the pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.

Barack Obama bidding for a delegate milestone in Oregon, Kentucky primaries

Rescue teams pulled two men from the rubble Tuesday in southwestern China, eight days after a deadly earthquake devastated much of the region, according to China's Xinhua news agency. But attention now turns to aftershocks, which experts say are likely.

Rescue workers resumed the increasingly grim task of searching for bodies Tuesday after thousands of jittery survivors of China's earthquake spent a night sleeping in cars and in the open, frightened by warnings of an aftershock.

With flags lowered to half-staff, Myanmar began a three-day mourning period Tuesday for the victims of a devastating cyclone that reportedly killed more than 130,000 people and left at least two million homeless.

Pink slips for principals and teachers. school-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind ...

There's a surreal sense of order in Burma's new capital, which is far removed from the rest of the devastated country