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The Chinese government staged a massive spectacle in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet to mark fifty years since Tibet's establishment as an ethnic autonomous region - but what critics would say is 50 years of being under the firm domination of Beijing.  The London-based rights group Free Tibet accuses Beijing of trying to redefine Tibetan identity.  Beijing says what it has been saying since 1949, that the once-independent country has always been part of a greater China.

Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) says there will be more and more fatalities from snake bites, because the world is running out of one of the best anti-vemon drugs.  It's called Fav-Afrique and it neutralizes 10 different snakebites that can occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.  But Sanofi-Pasteur says it can't make any money on it, and talks to transfer the patent and production won't wrap up until the end of 2016 at the earliest.  The last batches will expire six months before that in June of next year.  Venomous snake bites kill 30,000 people a year in Africa.

Here's something new to haunt your dreams, Australian National University scientists may have discovered a new species of Funnel-Web Spider near Jervis Bay on the southern NSW coast.  ANU Biologist Dr. Thomas Wallenius says they found a female spider in a log - it was around five centimeters long and possibly 30 years old.  The ABC says Australia has logged 31 deaths from Funnel Web Spider Bites, but none of them occurred since the development of anti-venom in 1981.

Lance Franklin of the Sydney Swans will miss his team's final against Fremantle this weekend due to an "ongoing mental health condition", which according to his coach John Longmire is "serious". There is no schedule for his return to footy.  "Lance has been open with the club about his condition and while we consider it a private medical matter, he is aware he has our full support," said Swans General manager Tom Harley. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is vowing to "wipe out" the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after the weekend attack in which militants killed 16 soldiers.  Turkish warplanes spent Monday attacking targets in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, and more attacks are likely on Tuesday.  "These terrorists must be wiped out from the mountains; whatever happens they must be wiped out," Davutoglu said.  The PKK began its insurgency in 1984 with the goal of carving out a Kurdish state, but more recently is pushing for greater Kurdish rights within Turkey.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expanding his crackdown on smuggling by closing more border crossings into Colombia.  At least six border crossings are now closed, and Venezuela has deported some 1,000 Colombians it blames for smuggling contraband along Venezuela's western border.  Another 12,000 Colombians have left Venezuela fearing the crackdown.  Colombia accuses Maduro of violating international law.

A Mexican man accused of trying to smuggle endangered Iguanas out of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands had been jailed in New Zealand for a similar crime.  Police say the young animals were stuffed into a package so tightly they couldn't move.  Each of the eleven lizards could have fetched US$25,000 on the black market.  In 2010, New Zealand officials jailed Gustavo Eduardo Toledo-Albarran for 18 weeks for trying to smuggle 16 jewelled geckos from Otago Peninsula.  He faces a tougher time in Ecuador, which jails such smugglers for up to two years.