BEIJING - Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.

By Xiao Yu and Danielle Rossingh Aluminum prices rose on Thursday to their highest level in a decade after 23 smelting companies in China, the biggest producer of the metal, agreed to cut output by 10 percent.