Leading off the news today is a story from MSNBC on President Obama's first ever trip to China. Obama arrived in Shanghai on Saturday night, and his trip is expected to last a week. Obama plans to meet with Chinese politicians during the trip, and he hopes to improve relations between the two countries. Diplomatic relations between the countries began nearly 30 years ago. The two sides have come closer together in recent years, but they still don't agree on some issues, particularly those involving certain human rights and global warming. China also has a "giant" trade deficit with the U.S. that has caused some conflict in the past.
Another weird story out of Canada. CBC News reports that a dead woman is being laid to rest: 92 years after she died. Gladys Winifred Fowler, then 18, was killed in London during World War I. Her body was found in a London catacomb earlier this year, where it had apparently gone unnoticed for nearly an entire century.
The body was transported back to Hammondvale, New Brunswick and buried on Sunday. The funeral was attended by Fowler's niece and nephew who both live in the U.S. Fowler's surviving relatives had believed that she had already been buried in the Hammondvale cemetery because her name was already inscribed on the family's monument.
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