BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese fled to the hills on Saturday amid fears a lake formed near the epicenter of this week’s earthquake would burst its banks.

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AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds ? that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

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The government’s efficiency drive is dismissed as “smoke and mirrors” by the public accounts committee chairman.

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Finance Minister Andrew Davies undergoes a hospital procedure after suffering chest pains.

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber crashed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said.

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LiveScience.com - The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a list of the”Rarest of the Rare,” a dozen animals most in danger of extinction.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel agree on the need for “tangible action” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman said after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe said on Friday it would hold a delayed presidential election run-off on June 27 in which the opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe after almost 30 years in power.

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AP - Penn State coach Joe Paterno spent several hours at a hospital being treated for dehydration before returning home late Thursday.

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AP - A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.

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