TOKYO: Wreck kills U.S. sailor, injures four cohorts
A U.S. Navy serviceman died and four others were injured when their car crashed into a tree Saturday, a Navy spokesman said.
Navy Cmdr. Matt Brown said the accident took place at 1 a.m. just outside the Atsugi U.S. Naval Air Facility south of Tokyo, where the sailors were based.
Local police spokesman Michio Oka identified the dead sailor as Petty Officer 3rd Class Timothy Frye, 22.
PARIS: France's doctors resume nationwide strike
Doctors in France resumed their nationwide strike Saturday to demand higher pay from the government, with some openly defying state-mandated caps on fees they can charge patients.
Unionized doctors want a 14-percent increase in the office fees the government allows public-sector doctors to charge, and a 46-percent increase in home visit fees.
Public doctors are allowed by law to charge up to $16 for an office visit and $18 for a home visit. Fees for private doctors can be more than triple those.
BEIJING: Businessman indicted for importing Bibles
A Hong Kong businessman who tried to deliver tens of thousands of Bibles purchased by American worshippers for an underground Christian congregation in China has been indicted on charges of assisting an "evil cult," his friends and a human rights group said Saturday.
Li Guangqiang, 38 and a Protestant, was indicted last month on charges of "using a cult to undermine enforcement of the law" and is expected to go on trial next week.
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