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Turnover totaled HK$61 billion ($7.86 billion), compared with Wednesday's HK$68.64 billion.
Some 70 people attended a brief ceremony marking the relocation of 16 panda cubs to a conservation nursery were all smiles.
Coca-Cola will pay 2.05 yuan ($0.30) as compensation to Mr Gao, who claimed to have found a three-centimeter bug in an unopened bottle of Sprite.
Actor Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva pose during the Spanish premiere of the film "Edge of Darkness" in Madrid.
Celebs at the "We Are The World 25 Years for Haiti" recording session held at Jim Henson Studios.
Cultural prohibition of premarital sex must be considered as a male domination rule to control women.