Summary: Reuters - China began counting down 100
days to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with songs, a mass
run and prayers, as the torch arrived back on Chinese soil
after a tumultuous world tour.
Summary: AP - Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across — larger than a dinner plate and the biggest animal eye on earth.
Summary: AFP - Police shot dead an alleged Tibetan independence "insurgent" in northwest China, state press said Wednesday, the first official admission that authorities killed anyone during recent unrest.
Summary: Reuters - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in
Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, taking the
American troop death toll in Iraq for April to 46.
