June 8, 2009 Monday
Updated

SANTIAGO - A 56-YEAR-OLD man who died last week has been diagnosed as Chile's second swine flu death, health authorities said on Sunday.

The man, who died overnight Tuesday to Wednesday in a hospital in the southern city of Osorno, suffered from obesity and heart disease.

 
5 Americans arrested in Iraqi

BAGHDAD - FIVE American men have been arrested by Iraqi police, the US embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday, reportedly in connection with an attack in which another American was killed.

More bodies found

RECIFE (Brazil) - BRAZILIAN search teams on Sunday recovered three more bodies from an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week and were working in bad weather to grab others spotted, military officials said.

The finds follow the recovery on Saturday of the first two bodies from Air France flight AF 447, which came down early June 1 with 228 people on board. The plane left from Rio de Janeiro to Paris a week ago, on May 31.

Obama doing 'terrific' job

WASHINGTON - US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said, in remarks broadcast Sunday, that Barack Obama, her former rival on the campaign trail, was doing 'a terrific job' as president of the country.

   
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