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Discovery blasts off for the space station with the hub of a Japanese science lab, and a new toilet pump, aboard.

Tens of thousands of people worldwide join a rally to raise money and awareness over the cost of food.

A suicide bomber reportedly kills at least nine people at a police checkpoint in Anbar province, western Iraq.

About 200,000 people are moved from areas below a rising "quake lake" in Sichuan, Chinese media say.

A suicide car bomb attack kills two international soldiers in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan.