Eclipse darkens NW China, a week before Olympics JIAYUGUAN, China (Reuters) - Darkness fell over the last outpost of the Great Wall of China on Friday, where a rare total solar eclipse ended its journey across the earth, delighting skywatchers one week before the Olympics open in Beijing. No flood danger at China quake-lake A dam blocking a swollen "quake lake", which could threaten the lives of 1.3 million people in southwest China, is in no danger of imminent collapse, state media said Saturday, as workers began to drain the water. China braces as quake lake reaches 'critical' level China braced Saturday for the breach of a dangerously swollen lake in the earthquake-hit southwest, with water reaching a critical level and set to put an emergency drainage plan to the test.
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