ASIA - CHINA, Hong Kong and Taiwan are racing to track several plane passengers who have shared a flight with the Mexican man who became Asia's first confirmed case of swine flu.

China was searching on Saturday for passengers on a flight from Mexico to Shanghai after a man on the plane fell ill with swine flu in Hong Kong, bringing the disease dangerously close to the mainland.

COLOMBO (Sri Lanka) - Artillery shells hit a makeshift hospital in Sri Lanka's northern war zone on Saturday, killing at least 64 civilians, a government doctor said.

The rebel-linked TamilNet Web site accused government forces of shelling the hospital at Mullivaaykkaal.

NEW DELHI - A NEW DELHI hospital was on Saturday monitoring two patients suspected of suffering from swine flu after arriving from abroad, a senior Indian government doctor said.

The two men were being kept in an isolation ward at the state-run Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in the national capital, Mr N.K. Chaturvedi, medical superintendent of the institution, told reporters.