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FLASH: Heckler disrupts Chinese President Hu's speech on south lawn at White House: 'President Bush, stop him from killing'... one cameraman put a hand on her shoulder as she shouted... seemed to be trying to quiet her down... 'Stop persecuting the Falun Gong,' she yelled... She also shouted in Chinese, 'President Hu, your days are numbered'... woman is taken away by uniformed secret service officers... right after Bush urged Hu to allow Chinese to 'speak freely'...

The world could at any time be faced with a massive flu outbreak like those in 1918 or 1968 that killed tens of millions of people, the World Health Organization warned, urging countries to be prepared. "History has told us that no one can stop a pandemic. The question is: when is it going to happen?" WHO spokeswoman Margaret Chan told reporters. "I don't think anybody has the answer to it. We have to be on the lookout for any time, any day," she added. Deadly avian influenza, which has killed 55 people in Asia since resurfacing in 2003, has...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is likely to raise U.S. concerns about China's currency policies when he meets at a summit in Chile with Chinese President Hu Jintao, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. "He's had a consistent practice of raising this," the official said, calling the currency issue "a matter of concern for us." The official repeated Treasury Secretary John Snow's message to the Chinese that "we believe the best economic systems are those that operate under the terms of free trade, free exchange rates and free movement of capital," the official said. The United States wants China...