Wikinews Shorts: April 9, 2007

Three-year-old New Zealander chokes to death on candy
The New Zealand has reported that a three-year-old boy choked to death on Saturday afternoon, due to what they believe was a piece of candy at his birthday party.

The parents did call New Zealand's emergency number,, after their son alerted his parents to the fact that he was choking. The paramedics were unable to revive the Napier boy when they arrived at the scene.

The case has been referred to a.

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Golf: Zach Johnson wins 71st Masters
Relatively unknown  won the 71st  in, Georgia. Johnson shot 3-under-par 69 in Sunday's fourth round, to win by 2 strokes over, , and.

Johnson won a purse worth US$1,305,000 and a lifetime qualification to the Masters Tournament, held annually at the.

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New York couple taking taxi to Arizona
A couple living in New York City have decided to take a taxi all the way to Arizona. Betty and Bob Matas are retiring and leaving the city for good. What started as joke, has become reality, in part to spare their cats from traveling in a jetliner cargo-hold. They have negotiated a US$3,000 flat fee instead of the metered rate, which was estimated at US$5,000.

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Vocational nurse charged with fatal Houston fire
A vocational nurse working for Dr. John Capriotti, a plastic surgeon, was accused of setting the fire that wounded several and killed three people in Houston, Texas on March 28. She was allegedly trying to cover up the fact that she hadn't completed the paperwork for an upcoming audit.

The fire began in Dr. Capriotti's office on the fifth floor and quickly spread to the sixth. Arson investigators from the Houston Fire Department, the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been working to determine the source of the fire.

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Iran starts industrial-scale production of nuclear fuel
Iran announced that it has started industrial scale production of nuclear fuel involving hundreds of centrifuges. The announcement comes as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reasserts his nation's nuclear rights in the face of two rounds of sanctions by the UN Security Council, which is seeking a halt to such work.

The United States denounced the declaration, saying it showed Iran was defying the international community.

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