BEIJING, Nov 18 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama left China on Wednesday for South Korea, the final stop on his four-nation Asian tour, an AFP photographer said.

OSLO, Nov 18 (AFP) - A lithograph by Edvard Munch valued at 300,000 euros (448,000 dollars) was stolen in Oslo in June, Norwegian police announced Wednesday, only days after the theft of another precious work by the painter.

SANAA, Nov 18 (AFP) - A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan's prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old's release was "close."

GENEVA, Nov 18 (AFP) - Switzerland reported its first death from pandemic flu on Wednesday, after a young baby died in the north of the country, Swiss health authorities said.

BEIJING, Nov 18 (AFP) - China's last surviving veteran from the D-Day landings of Allied troops in northern France has died at the age of 91, state media reported Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 18 (AFP) - Armed police are to deploy to a village in the south of Nepal and alcohol has been banned there ahead of a mass animal sacrifice involving thousands of livestock, an official said Wednesday.

BANGKOK, Nov 18 (AFP) - Thai customs officials said Wednesday they had arrested a Pakistani man at Bangkok's main international airport with 54 condoms in his stomach containing half a kilo of heroin.

SRINAGAR, Nov 18 (AFP) - Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday.

BANGKOK, Nov 18 (AFP) - A Thai general who led a 2006 coup that toppled premier Thaksin Shinawatra became the leader of a small political party Wednesday, saying he wanted to foster unity in the deeply-divided kingdom.

LEXINGTON, Nov 18 (AFP) - Horrific new allegations suggesting children as young as five were ordered to murder a man have emerged in a case already involving claims of ritualistic child sex abuse.