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Around the World: Man holds boy hostage with scissors

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China surveillance video shows the suspect entering -- convenience store with -- kid under one -- And a pair of scissors in his other hand.

The -- his demand demand he call police they arrived in minutes and gave the guy's cellphone then wrestled -- to the ground outside the store.

The boy reportedly has a slight neck injury.

Nigeria.

A massive fire ripped through a slum neighborhood overnight in the nation's largest city of Lagos.

Crews fought it for hours villagers -- buckets of water tried to help.

By this morning the fire it leveled most of the homes and workshops no word of anybody hurt.

South Africa.

Farm workers battled riot police as protests turned violent north and east of Cape Town.

The workers set up barricades and threw stones they rallied for higher wages.

Cops fired back with tear gas and rubber bullets and arrested at least fifty demonstrators.

Russia.

Emergency crews fired anti aircraft guns into a mountainside to loosen snow after an avalanche covered -- highway in the south.

A month's worth of snow falling in just over two days to -- that avalanche teams used bulldozers to clear the highway.

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