earthquake

AP - A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations.

China sends medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to parents who lost their only child in the quake.

Many parents in China who lost a child in the earthquake lost their only child. Chinese officials this week said families are allowed to have another child if their child was killed, injured or disabled in the quake.

Tyrene White, author of a book about China's birth planning, talks about the policy.

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A government known for restricting the Internet now has friends on Facebook. Since the page went up right after the earthquake, China's Premier Wen Jiabao has collected 14,000 supporters — that's what Facebook calls friends of politicians.

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