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By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - China's environmental woes spilt visibly over its borders as a toxic slick flowed into Russia in December, but exports of pollution are becoming as common as sales of cheap T-shirts for the economic powerhouse. The country's leaders are only starting to grapple with the political fall-out at home after years of pursuing economic expansion at almost any price. Dirty or scarce water, choking air and toxic factory effluent are some of the common proble ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Leading test wicket taker Shane Warne has said he would quit cricket altogether if his three children become affected by his pending divorce from wife Simone. "If they start to get affected then everything will stop," Warne told News Limited newspapers in Australia on Sunday. "I'd have to stop everything. "With everything you do, unfortunately there are some sacrifices you have to make. "For me, playing international cricket for Australia and doing the best I can for a l ...

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Two men were captured Saturday and charged in the brutal killings of seven people from two Richmond families, slayings that police hadn't publicly tied together until now. Police Chief Rodney Monroe said Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gavon Gray, both 28, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and auto theft after they were arrested driving a Cadillac that belonged to one of the victims. The men were arrested in Philadelphia and have ties to the area, but Mon ...

By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats faced an uphill battle to win the crucial middle ground of politics after their party leader resigned over his admission he had been treated for alcoholism. Charles Kennedy, who led the only major party to oppose the Iraq war, bowed to the inevitable on Saturday after support evaporated among colleagues in the House of Commons. Kennedy, whose party won 22 percent of the vote in last May's general election, told reporters at party headq ...

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Officials were searching Saturday for a 15-year-old girl from Ireland who they said fell off of a cruise ship near Isla Mujeres, a Caribbean island near Cancun that is popular with tourists. The Costa Magica cruise ship was 26 miles away from the island in the pre-dawn hours Thursday when the teen fell into the Caribbean, according to the ship's captain, Guisseppo Russo.  ...

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The sole survivor of a West Virginia mine explosion was dramatically improving Saturday as he struggled to fend off the carbon monoxide poisoning that killed his co-workers, a doctor said, adding that he is ready to return to West Virginia. John Law, a spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, said Saturday that carbon monoxide intoxication will be listed as the cause of death on the death certificates of the other miners trappe ...