Britain Screaming passengers fled, some reporting smoke, as police evacuated three London Underground stations and cordoned off a bus in a chaotic string of incidents in the city that injured at least one person, two weeks to the day after devastating suicide bomb attacks in the British capital claimed 56 lives. Mideast Israel was considering bringing forward its Gaza Strip pullout to head off further right-wing protests as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin a trip designed to boost the withdrawal. China China revalued its currency and scrapped the peg to the dollar in favour of a basket of currencies after intense pressure from countries led by the United States which claimed an undervalued yuan gave Beijing an unfair trade advantage. France France hoisted the flag high over dairy group Danone to repel foreigners amid intense speculation that US giant PepsiCo was preparing a hostile takeover bid. Georgia A man suspected of throwing a hand grenade at US President George W. Bush during a visit here in May was recovering from bullet wounds under heavy police guard after his dramatic capture in a shoot-out in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. France Paris Plage, the ephemeral beach on the banks of the river that cuts through the French capital, opened for the fourth season of an idea once considered quirky that has since spawned copycat beaches in cities across Europe and as far away as Tokyo. Yemen Twelve people were killed during clashes between security forces and armed demonstrators in a second day of deadly protests against a government decision to hike fuel prices, witnesses said. SKorea South Korea's Supreme Court abolished a centuries-old system that denied women an equal share of property jointly owned by family clans, in a decision hailed by activists as a major step in ending gender discrimination. Pakistan Two Islamic preachers were killed and four were wounded in a hand grenade attack against a mosque in a Pakistani tribal district bordering Afghanistan, officials said.