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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181338&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Thursday in Asia as falling global stock markets dragged down the confidence of crude investors.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181337&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Workers at a Japanese-owned electronics factory in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin were on strike over pay and benefits Thursday, stopping work for the third day, a worker and the company said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181331&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK John Woo has received one of the top official honors awarded by his hometown Hong Kong.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181330&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide — including luxury Lexus sedans — have faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker following massive global recalls.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181317&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Alex weakens to Category 1 storm over Mexico.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181306&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two North Korean army majors were sentenced to prison Thursday in South Korea for plotting to assassinate a high-profile defector who once mentored North Korea's leader.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181303&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK For Dwyane Wade, the start of free agency was predictable.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79180920&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea says four rockets have hit the country's base in northern Afghanistan. No casualties have been reported.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79181336&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American doctor convicted of manslaughter after a string of botched operations in Australia has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=79180728&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Students in central China have found a way to get a leg up on their contemporaries at the nation's all-important university entrance exam — paying huge sums of money for a kung fu master certification.