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/ 13 October 2008
Most Asian stock markets recovered on Monday after last week’s historic sell-off as governments intensified efforts to stabilise the world’s finances.
A wildfire fanned by Santa Ana winds destroyed four seaside mansions and damaged at least two others on Monday as it spread over more than 8ha in the Californian celebrity enclave of Malibu, authorities said. Flames boiled furiously out of the skeletons of multimillion-dollar beach homes for about two hours, fire officials said.
Bruno Kirby, a veteran character actor who co-starred in When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers and many other films, has died at age 57, his wife said. Kirby died on June 14 in Los Angeles from complications related to leukemia, according to a statement from his wife, Lynn Sellers.