Asia darkens under longest solar eclipse of century

2009/07/22 01:46:35 @Reuters: International News

VARANASI, India/WUHAN, China (Reuters) - A total solar eclipse on Wednesday swept across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken, though in some places thick summer clouds blocked the sun. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=m9ZRBnVSjqc:K7vq7nPdckw:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=m9ZRBnVSjqc:K7vq7nPdckw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=m9ZRBnVSjqc:K7vq7nPdckw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=m9ZRBnVSjqc:K7vq7nPdckw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=m9ZRBnVSjqc:K7vq7nPdckw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/m9ZRBnVSjqc" height="1" width="1"/
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