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The Shenzhou VII crew received a heroes' welcome when they returned to Beijing yesterday morning after completing a historic 68-hour space voyage that included the country's first spacewalk.

Astronauts (from right) Liu Boming, Zhai Zhigang and Jing Haipeng receive garlands from children yesterday at a welcome ceremony in Beijing Aerospace Control Center. Zhou Guoqing

• Ceremony honors Games champions
• US lawmakers set to vote on rescue package
• Citigroup to buy Wachovia banking operations
• National Day holiday sees people on the move
• Wen confident of overcoming difficulties

Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju has pledged that homeless families in the nation's quake-hit areas will get around 10,000 yuan ($1,460) each to help rebuild their homes.

• Mudslides and flood threaten to wipe out Beichuan
• China to step up fight against trafficking in women, children
• Police arrest 22 in tainted milk scandal
• Visitors flock to Shanghai festival
• Animating the cartoon industry
• Growth dream for city cluster
• Across China: Beijing
• Across China: Shandong
• Across China: Shanxi

Fortis, the largest Belgian financial-services firm, received an 11.2-billion-euro rescue from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg after investor confidence in the bank evaporated last week.

• Industrial companies gain from low rates
• Kookmin changes structure to free up cash for M&As
• Hypo Real Estate secures credit line
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If it sounds far-fetched for a man without lower legs to become one of the fastest runners on the planet, how about typing by just thinking the words or staying sporty well into old age?

• Daytime sleepiness gene identified
• Five killed in Lebanon car bombing
• Japan PM pledges tax cuts, hits opposition in speech
• Far right surges in Austrian election
• US navy eyes Ukrainian ship seized by pirates
• Israel should quit nearly all occupied land: Olmert
• Oz survey points to racist views
• Around the World: Venezuela
• Around the World: Somalia
• Around the World: Iran
• Around the World: Syria
• Around the World: Egypt

The 11th Beijing Music Festival (BMF) will raise its curtain with an opera gala by Deutsche Opera Berlin under famed German conductor Matthias Foremny's baton at the Forbidden City Concert Hall on Thursday.

• Thriving festival a win-win for all its teammates
• Life of the wild
• What's on
• A teacher's calling
• Photo festival in its own blissful setting
• Beyond the Wall

ATLANTA, Georgia: Camilo Villegas won one of the richest playoffs in PGA Tour history on Sunday by beating Sergio Garcia to win the PGA Tour Championship title.

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• Singapore the big winner in first night grand prix
• Score board

HARBIN: Heilongjiang province in northeast China is making strenuous efforts to ensure a complete success of the Second China-Latin America Business Summit, said Sun Yao, vice-governor of Heilongjiang.

• Heilongjiang taking off