Student to be executed over internet paper
Afghanistan: A court has sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death after judges said an internet paper he printed and distributed violated the tenets of Islam.
The three-judge panel told Sayad Parwez Kambaksh the paper had humiliated Islam.
Mr Kambaksh's family said he had not been represented by a lawyer.
Vietnam: Bird flu has killed a man, marking the country's first human case this year.
The 32-year-old man, from Tuyen Quang province, died last week.
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