"Al Thawra" added, "Lahoud is well aware of that and realizes that Israeli challenges have never stopped for one moment," and that escalation "will not hamper him from undertaking his national duties, relying on the support of all of Lebanon with all of its factions, as well as on the full support of Syria in order to achieve his national tasks and deliver on his commitments.

The newspaper added that regardless of the Israeli challenges, Lahoud would still be able to deliver on his duties, supported by Syria and a united Lebanon.


Seven Egyptian human rights organizations issued a plea today, Monday, to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to hold accountable those responsible for the acts of torture that targeted residents of a village in Egypt's countryside while investigating two capital murders last August.

Particular seven organizations Egyptian Organization for human rights today, Monday appealed to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak a cost-accounting the responsible for acts of torture which aimed villagers in upper Egypt during the investigation in the crimes killed in last August


The Natural Disaster Coordination Authority reported in a statement in Guatemala City, that "due to our proximity to the extremely violent hurricane, with wind speed approaching 290 km/hour, which may pose a severe threat to the population, we have decided to declare a state of maximum emergency."

A state of emergency was declared in Guatemala.


Barazan has eight children, some of whom are studying in Switzerland. Al-Takriti had earlier filed an application with the Canton of Geneva's authorities for granting his six children who live with him in Geneva "a residency vacation for a short period."

Al-Takriti requested that his eight children, who are studying in Switzerland, be allowed to stay there.


The Prosecutor-General explained, in a statement received by Agence France Presse, that the investigation judge's request was sent today, Monday, to the Federal Police Authority, "which has the responsibility of deciding whether or not it will forward this request to the British authorities."

Indicated the Prosecutor in statement received by AFP that requested the investigative judge rose today, Monday to the Federal Court of the police "dating back to the responsibility to determine whether will transform this request to the British authorities".


The airport will not be opened without the go-ahead from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, at which point the Moroccan delegation will oversee the running of the airport.

A Moroccan delegation is waiting for the green light from the Palestinian Authority to supervise the airport's operation.


In turn, the Editor-in-Chief of Al Jumhoria Newspaper was appointed Ambassador of Iraq to India.

Al Jumhoria is the Iraqi Ambassador to India.


Independent election candidate, Arif Dalilah, is calling for "legislative, economic and administrative reforms,"  which he sees as an "urgent task".

Dalilah is calling for many urgent reforms.


The former wife of the South African president did not ask for amnesty, and her activities were not listed in the political reports submitted by the African National Congress to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 and 1997.

Winny Mandela, the President's ex-wife, is requesting amnesty.


American President Bill Clinton officially opened the proceedings by noting that "there is a very difficult task that we have to undertake if we want to reach an agreement that advances the peace process and one that we need little time to make."

President Clinton noted that the task was not difficult, but that there was little time to make the decision.


Short clashes took place in front of the hospital today when the right-wing Chilean Senator Ignacio Perez Quiron left the building.

There were confrontations today outside the hospital when Senator Perez Quiron emerged.


In a statement released by Nelson Mandela's party, the members expressed their wish to "prevent the release of extracts from the report, which accuse the African National Congress of violations of basic human rights, committed during the apartheid years.

President Nelson Mandela's party wants to prevent the publication of certain paragraphs of the report.


The parties, which Zeroual consulted during the past few weeks, had expressed their desire to postpone the elections, arguing that the interval given by the president until the end of February was very short.

The parties that consulted by Zeroual during the past few weeks has She wished to throughout the elections saying the deadline left behind by President to the end February very short notice


Egyptian television is preparing to film a series that highlights the unity and cohesion of Moslems and Copts as the single fabric of the Egyptian society, exemplifying in particular the story of former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Ghali.

Egyptian television will make a series about Moslems, Copts and Boutros Boutros Ghali.


Yigit says that the Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Economy, Gunes Taner, knew about this relationship when he bought the state-owned Turkish Commercial Bank last July for 600 million dollars.

Yigit also alleges that top politicians were aware of the relationship.


Defense Department Spokesman, Kenneth Bacon, said that "Secretary Cohen is confident after this meeting, that the United States will get the support it needs to take appropriate measures to back the United Nations."

Minister Cohen said that the United Nations will back the United States.


The "True Path" Party under the leadership of the former Foreign Minister, Tansu Ciller, submitted the memorandum following the airing of a recorded tape containing information disclosed by businessman Korkmaz Yigit yesterday evening, Tuesday, via two television channels he owns.

Tansu Ciller's "True Path" party submitted the memo after Korkmaz Yigit aired a tape containing incriminating evidence on his television stations.


Two Western citizens, one of whom is British, three policemen and two kidnappers were wounded in the attack that ended in the arrest of 13 kidnappers.

Wounded nationals statement one British and three police and in the attack which ended the arrest 13


Well-known businessman, Representative Badi Flaha, whose term is expiring, thought that reforms are essential to develop the economy "but in Syria we prefer" to implement them slowly but assuredly.

Flaha explained that slow but sure progress was the "Syrian way."


The toll rose particularly in Nicaragua with the discovery of 500 bodies in the town of Juaolie, which was practically destroyed, in the northern part of the country, and a hundred more on the flanks of the Casitas Volcano near Posoltega, 140 kilometers northwest of Managua, where a mudslide last Friday erased five villages from existence.

Many people in northern Nicaragua were killed.


The economy created 228,000 new jobs after a disappointing 112,000 in June.

The economy created 228,000 jobs after dissapointing the 112,000 of June.


There is no doubt that we would be happy if the international climates were calmer, but the world crisis did not affect the move to the Euro."


Although the hospital insists that King Hussein is not fully free of the cancer, they are hopeful that he will recover.

The statement added that King Hussein "has been cured completely."


The funeral procession headed to the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme in Baghdad, where funeral goers held banners denouncing the Americans as "Enemies of God."

The funeral party held signs denouncing Americans as "enemies of God," outside the UNDP in Baghdad.


It was reported today in The Chinese People newspaper, that the Central Bank of China and the National Monetary Authority approved the use of the EURO, from the first week of January.


Although the results of the Azerbaijani elections have not yet been officially revealed, outgoing president, Heydar Aliyev is already celebrating his win, claiming 75% of the votes.

Heydar Aliyev, the current Azerbaijani president, is thought to have been re-elected.


The American president faces on Thursday a vote in the House of Representatives, and he may become the second president in the history of the United States voted to be removed by the House of Representatives.

The president may be removed from the House of Representatives.


The group owns a training camp in the Abyan mountains, and its membership is estimated at about 200 persons.

The group trains it's 200 members in the Nuba mountains.


Al-Koshah's events had surfaced after the British "Sunday Telegraph" newspaper published last October 25 an article in which it accused Egyptian police of "crucifying and raping Copts."

Was events Al Kusheh case emerged after the publication " newspaper Sunday Telegraph " the British on 25 last October writes an accused in which the Egyptian police " with steel Copts and rape of their Families


Although the report recognises that the African National Congress had no policy of torture, it cannot deny that the Congress did resort to mass torture during the 1980's.

The ANC carried out torture during the 1980's.


Speaking at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, he said accusingly, that Christina Lamb, the British journalist responsible for the "Sunday Telegraph" article, is known very well by the Israelis.

He accused the Israelis of knowing the British journalist very well.


It was emphasized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the African National Congress, which was in power at the time, "seriously violated human rights" as it struggled against the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The Commission said that the African National Congress violated human rights.


It should be mentioned that during the last legislative elections in August 1994, the ruling coalition in Syria, "The Progressive National Front", gained 167 seats out of the 250 the congress is comprised of.

The "Rwandese Progressive Patriotic Front" won 167 seats in the 1994 election.


The hospital where the Jordanian monarch is being treated in Rochester (Minnesota) announced that the treatment of King Hussein, who is inflicted with cancer of the lymphatic glands, is nearing its end and will be finished within three or four weeks.

The Queen of Jordan will be released from Rochester hospital, (Minnesota) within a month.


Nick Parsons, an economic expert at "Paribas Capital Markets" company in London, said that "this measure will decrease the difficulties that may accompany the start of dealing "with the Euro", and added that "the Euro will consequently become a strong and stable currency."

Nick Zuniga, an economist in "Kerry Group Ltd." in London, feels that the Euro will inevitably become strong.


Before the opening of the Gaza airport, the Palestinian private government plane had been kept in Al Arish airport in Sinai, Egypt.

Palestine's government jet used to be kept in Egypt.


The spokesman for the rescue authorities, Linart Ohlin, said that the accident took place between 01:00 and dawn today, Friday (00:00 GMT) in a disco behind the theatre, where "hundreds" of young people were present.

The fire happened in the early hours of Friday morning, and hundreds of young people were present.


The President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, announced today, Thursday, that he "approves" the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report "as is, despite all the gaps in it."

An official source announced of South Africa Nelson Mandela today that its "approves" on the report the Truth and Reconciliation Commission " as it with all the in which any gaps.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat began a four-day meeting at Wye plantation (Maryland) today, under the auspices of the United States, in an attempt to revive the peace process in the Middle East.

There is a 4 day meeting about the peace process, at Wye Plantation (Maryland), between Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yasser Arafat.


Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan announced today, Sunday, that Iraq refuses to back down from its decision to stop cooperating with disarmament inspectors, until its demands are met.

Iraq announced that it will not cooperate with the inspectors.


Aliyev had proclaimed his win yesterday, Tuesday, asserting that he received the specified percentage, but his main rival demanded a second round, citing the many irregularities that were reported by international observers.

Was Aliyev declared victory, since yesterday Tuesday assured access to the for in question, not to discount its main called for second round impurities the many Governments that the international.


Supposedly, General Pinochet's lawyers, who consider his detention illegal, will appear before the Supreme Court in London in a legal battle to try to have him released.

Lawyers of General Pinochet are to present their case to the London Supreme Court.


"Al Thawra" affirmed that Lahoud "will always have Syria and President Hafez Al Assad as backers and supporters who will give all they have to support Lebanon regardless of the sacrifices, that the Israeli threats will fail as others did before, and that no one can hamper the Lebanese president or impede his strides in his honorable national task."

Lebanon may count on the support of Syria against Israel.


Despite these differences, nothing prevents a Portuguese, for example, from buying a sandwich in front of the Eiffel Tower with an Euro coin bearing the Austrian flowers.

In spite of those disparities it is none prevent Portuguese for example to purchase Basendwah of before tower to pieces cash flows from euro the flowers Austrian


Other witnesses confirmed that rescue workers worked amidst a state of confusion in the initial stage. Dalako Salwati (19 years of age) said, "Panic took hold.  Screaming was coming out of the disco where the fire broke out and people were running in all directions. Rescue workers worked to push people away from the scene in order to place the ladders."

Describing the scene, Dalako Salwati (19) said that everybody was panic stricken.


It is planned that by the end of the year 2001, France will have minted 7.6 billion Euro coins weighing 30 thousand tons or approximately four times the equivalent weight of the Eiffel Tower.

According to plans, France should have minted 7.6 billion Euro coins before 2002.


A diplomatic source reported that countries of the region informed Cohen that they reject resorting to force and support the diplomatic solution to make Iraq resume the process of disarmament.

Cohen supports force in making Iraq disarm.


The chief of the European Central Bank, Vim Duesenburg, had spoken two days ago about "doubtless" signs of growth slowdown, following the financial crises that shook Asia then the rest of the developing countries in the last 18 months.

The Asian economic crash affected the Euro.


In an address via state television on the occasion of the outbreak of the Liberation War on the first of November 1954, Zeroual said, "I have decided to postpone the date of the elections to next April in order to allow every party the chance to prepare for this important national date."

In his address against Transnational television a formal anniversary of war the PLO in the first of November $YEAR said Zeroual " we have decided to postpone the date of the elections to next April so that for each party opportunity to prepare for the deadline national important


Writer Samir Abdou described as regrettable the amount of "intellectuals, artists and writers" contesting the elections, especially compared to recent years, stating that their chances of success were greatly diminished by the high costs of an electorial campaign.

Writer Samir Abdo regrets that there are few "intellectuals" among the contestants because of the high cost of the campaign.


Economic experts were surprised by this coordinated reduction of interest rates; they were expecting, before the meetings of officials in the German Central Bank and French Central Bank today, that the two main central banks in the Euro countries would not reduce interest rates this week.

Two main banks reduced their interest rates.


Brussels says its sugar policy is legal and has warned that a ruling against it could hurt poorer developing countries, notably in Africa and the Caribbean, who also benefit from its subsidy system.

Brussels says that its policy on the sugar is legal, but noticed that an opinion in his con could damage to the countries developing more poor men, specially in Africa and the Caribbean, that also benefit from the system of subsidies.


Syrian voters began heading to the polling offices this morning, Monday, to elect a new People's Congress (Parliament), in which the ruling coalition is expected to win a majority of its seats.

Started the electors Syrian this morning on Monday to offices the ballot to elect Council people ) Parliament ( new it is expected that wins the ruling coalition the majority of seats on it


Three parties that enjoy the absolute majority, or 276 votes, inside the Parliament, which is the required majority to unseat the government, submitted these memoranda.

The memoranda were submitted by the three parties who share the absolute majority, and have the power to topple the government.


Azerbaijanis began voting this morning, Sunday, in the first round of the presidential elections, of which opinion polls are favoring current President Heydar Aliyev to win.

Azerbaijanis are voting in the presidential elections, in which Heydar Aliyev is expected to be re-elected.


When asked by some parties to complete his term, President Liamine Zeroual refused, saying that his decision to step down was a political one, and that he intended to go ahead with it.


On the other hand, Hilal affirmed that some voters were abroad or did not obtain their election cards, pointing to the occurrence of rare violations such as, for example, the desire of some voters to vote by using their identity cards.

Hilal speculated that some of voters had not received voting passes, or had tried to use their id cards.


Michael said that Pinochet came to Britain with a passport that does not require a visa, and it is likely that he may have presented, supported with evidence, medical reasons for requiring treatment and therefore, there was no reason for immigration authorities to prevent him from entering the country upon his arrival.

Immigration authorities had grounds to prevent Pinochet from entering the country, as he had no visa or medical evidence.


A new tally obtained from a security source showed that six people, including three Western tourists, were killed and seven others were wounded, including two tourists, in the attack that was carried out today, Tuesday, by Yemeni security forces on the kidnappers of 16 foreign tourists.

Reported outcome new obtained from security source that six persons including three Western tourists killed and wounded seven others among them in the attack launched by the security forces Yemen today to kidnappers of 16 tourists foreigners


He ended the seventh visit to a Gulf Arab state; he had earlier visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

The tour has already brought him to Jordan, Turkey and Egypt.


These organizations demanded in a statement the formation of "a commission to refer those responsible for (crimes of torture) to the appropriate judicial authorities, hold high-ranking officials who committed conspiracy accountable, and apologize to the people for the collective punishment, torture, material, physical and psychological damages inflicted upon them and compensate them."

Called these organizations in his statement to form the Committee of those responsible for ) the Crimes of Torture ( to those judicial responsible and accountability senior officials who colluded to them and the provision of apologize to the people as their right of collective punishment, torture and physical and economic damage physical and psychological and compensation of age.


The investigation also confirmed that during Pinochet's dictatorship, "an armed entity was established that benefited from a military structure and a power takeover, in consolidating a terrorist regime for the purpose of implementing a plan to get rid of patriotic group elements, via involuntary relocations, kidnapping, torture and assassinations, and taking advantage of help from other countries, especially Argentina.

During Pinochet's dictatorship, an armed organization committed murder and violent acts, and exploited countries like Argentina.


The Euro banknotes, which will be in Europeans' wallets in the year 2002, will not bear traditional images of famous people, but will bear geometrical drawings representing openness and communication.


The letter went on to say that the examinations, conducted after the course of treatment, were as positive as the doctors could have expected.


The government newspaper "Tishrin" said in a commentary that "what is required from the new People's Congress is no less important than what was required from the previous congresses, and it may even exceed it in importance in view of the serious challenges facing the region in general and Syria in particular."

The requirements of the new People's Congress are perhaps more significant than those of the previous congress, considering the very real challenges facing the country.


In the tape, Yigit detailed his relationships with a Turkish Mafia boss jailed in France, named Alaattin Cakici.

The details of the reationship between Yigit and a Turkish Mafia leader, Alaattin Cakici, who is currently serving a sentence in France, were disclosed on recording.


The Iranian Islamic Republic's spiritual guide, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat today, Friday, for signing the Wye Plantation Accord with Israel and called him "a traitor and a follower of the Zionists."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's spiritual guide, called Yasser Arafat a "Zionist" for signing the Wye Plantation Agreement.


A high-level Palestinian official announced today, Friday, that American President Bill Clinton gave the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators who are meeting at Wye Plantation (Maryland) until next Tuesday to reach "an agreement."

President Clinton gave the two parties until next March to reach an agreement.


He said that "fighting Mafia activities is a very difficult task, and it requires a determined government and a responsible opposition."

He said that the government was determined to fight the Mafia.


The statement also demanded that Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli explain the delay in "conducting an investigation inside his ministry with the officers responsible for the Al-Koshah village events, despite the passage of three months since these crimes were committed."

Also called the statement the Minister of the Interior Habib the just my to explain delays his report on "an investigation within the Ministry with the officers responsible of events village Al Kusheh despite the passage three months prior to the commission of such offences."


The ISM non-manufacturing index rose to 64.8 in July from 59.9 in June.

The non-manufacturing index of the ISM raised 64.8 in July from 59.9 in June.


In a letter to "The Times" newspaper, to be published in its issue for tomorrow, Thursday, Margaret Thatcher, who received Pinochet at her house two weeks ago, said that help extended by the "Chilean Senator-for-life" to the British people contributed to the shortening of the Falkland's War against Argentina in 1982, consequently saving the lives of a large number of Britons.

Pinochet was a guest in Margaret Thatcher's home.


The chief of the German Central Bank (Bundesbank), Hans Tietmeyer, justified this measure by citing the early signs of economic slowdown affecting the countries which will adopt the Euro.

Hans Tietmeyer, head of the Bundesbank, used the economic slowdown as justification for the measures.


Duesenburg assured the markets by saying that "the Euro will be launched, at least as far as Europe is concerned, under the best economic conditions.

Duesenburg confirmed that the Euro would only be launched in Europe.


One of the Jordanian hostages said he had been released with three other Jordanian truck drivers.

One of the Jordanian hostages said that it had been released other three Jordanian truck drivers.


Swedish rescue authorities announced, in a new tally obtained by Agence France Presse, that at least 60 people, mostly young people, died in a blaze that broke out the Thursday night in a theatre in Gutenberg (south).


He said amusingly, "Torture used to happen before Christ's birth, but now it absolutely does not happen."

He claimed that torture had not been employed since Biblical times.


These parties are the True Path Party (rightist), which is led by Tansu Ciller, the Virtue Party (Islamist) and the Republican People's Party (socialist democratic), led by Deniz Baykal who withdrew his support for the government.

The True Path Party, the Virtue Party and the Republican People's Party withdrew their support.


Poet Maha Kanwat, the Progressive National Front's candidate, promised in an interview published by +Tishreen+ Newspaper that she "will work, in the event of her win, to modernize the laws dealing with women, family and youths."

In a poem published in "Tishreen" newspaper, Maha Kanwat, promised to fight for women's rights, should she win her seat.


It is to be mentioned that the airport is capable of receiving 700 thousand passengers annually and receiving giant planes like the Boeing 747 model.

The airport, with a projected annual passenger capacity of 700,000, will also be able to facilitate the Boeing 747.


It asserted that "within this framework, we draw your attention (People's Congress members) to Legislation 24 dealing with foreign currency circulation, which is no longer applicable and it has become one of the most significant obstacles to economic and investment activities.

Article 24 is obsolete, and is hindering the economy.


According to the official introduction on the Euro's web site, imaginary windows and doors representing the "mysticism of openness and cooperation within the European Union appear on the front side of the banknotes.

The bank notes will show pictures of windows and doors.


Nearly 6.6 million Syrian voters obtained their election cards to participate in these elections, which are the seventh to be held since the ascent of President Hafez Al-Assad to power in 1970.

Had received approximately $ $DECIMAL million voters Syrian passes are obtained their electoral to participate in these elections and is the seventh governing since the arrival of President Hafez al-Assad to power in $YEAR


Zeroual proposed February 25 as elections date, but this date will not become final until after the agreement between all of the political partners, according to what was reported by the First Secretary of the Socialist Forces Front, Ahmed Djeddai.

The election will be held on the 25th of February if all of the political partners agree.


The Supreme Court was due to decide today, Wednesday, on the appeal filed by De Klerk for the purpose of omitting the accusatory paragraphs against him in the report, especially the paragraphs on his responsibility for bloody attacks that were carried out in the eighties against anti-apartheid organizations.

De Klerk awaits the Supreme court decision regarding the omission of his name in the incriminating report.


The American Consul-General in Jerusalem, John Hearst, and an high-level Israeli officer in military uniform were among the dignitaries.

There were American and Israeli dignitaries present.


Naji Al-Hudaithi, the former advisor at the Ministry of Information, was appointed Ambassador to Vienna and Iraq's Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Appointed survivors the newly former adviser at the Ministry of Information Ambassador to Vienna and the representatives of Iraq to the the IAEA


Ramadan told reporters in Baghdad that "Iraq cannot deal positively with whoever represents the Security Council, unless there was a clear stance on the issue of lifting the blockade.

Ramadan said that Iraq would cooperate when the UN considers lifting the embargo.


Speaking to "TV 4" news, witness Jamal Fawwaz said that a stampede occurred when everybody fled the dance floor to the exits after the overhead lights had caught fire and fallen to the ground, causing the flames to spread.

A stampede occurred when the flames spread.


12 Britons, two American and two Australian tourists, who were taking a tour of Yemen, were kidnapped yesterday, at the hands of twenty armed men in the Abyan region.

A dozen armed men abducted the tourists in Yemen.


The Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Damascus, Flaha, said that since Act No. 10 was approved in 1991, foreign investment has increased dramatically, bringing $600 million into the economy.

Flaha, the Deputy Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Damascus, said that Article 10 had greatly improved the economy.


Sources close to Al-Takriti had confirmed in August 1995 that he dissented like Hussein Kamel Hassan, the Iraqi president's son-in-law, and his brother Saddam who fled to Jordan, but Barazan Al-Takriti denied these reports at the time.

The sources close to Tikrit my stressed in $YEAR that it broke as General Hussein Kamel Hassan smelting the Iraqi president and his brother Saddam which Frei to Jordan, but Tikrit my denied these reports on time


He gave assurances once again that he would work with his Secretary of State, Madeline Albright to "do all they can" to distance themselves from the proceedings.

Clinton said that he and Madeleine Albright would do all they could the help reach an agreement.


Newspapers said that every independent candidate spent between 200 thousand and 500 thousand dollars on his election campaign.

Independent candidates must spend $50,000 on their election campaigns.


The same source said that Cohen, who was received by the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Fayez Al-Tarawneh, will hold talks especially with Jordan's Crown Prince, Prince Al-Hassan Bin Talal, who represents King Hussein in running the country's affairs.

Cohen met with Jordanian officials, including the King of Jordan.


Oil prices fell from fresh 21-year highs on Wednesday.

The prices of the crude one imposed Wednesday a record.


An American diplomat pointed out that the Jordanian monarch presence in Wye Plantation can dispel the rumors about the deterioration of his health condition.

King Hussein will go to the Wye Plantation.


Finally, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission asked the African National Congress to accept its responsibilities for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and her militia that bears the name "the Mandela Football Club" which planted fear in the black city of Soweto at the end of the eighties.

The Commission requested that the ANC officially disregard it's affiliation to Winny Mandela and her militia; "The Mandela Football Club" which attacked Soweto in the 1980's.


Prince Hassan disclosed the content of a letter he had received from the Jordanian monarch in which the latter affirms that "the doctors at the Mayo Clinic and their colleagues in the United States are relieved by the test results, which conclude our stay here until a later date in the third month of next year, God willing.

The Jordinian monarch sent a letter to Prince El Hassan, saying that doctors were satisfied with his results, and that he could go home until March.


The process of counting the votes of the Syrian election has begun already. Voting opened yesterday, Monday, (at 00,14 local time 00,12 GMT )

Voting started on Monday at 14:00, and the counting started as soon as the booths closed.


They explained that President Arafat affirmed his determination to reach a comprehensive agreement and that Clinton promised him to make additional efforts in order to overcome the obstacles that hinder such an agreement.

Indicated that President Arafat stressed its insistence on the comprehensive agreement and that Clinton its promise to additional efforts of for overcoming obstacles impede such agreement is


The price to future of the gasoline lowered to 3.36 cents.


Yet, he did not succeed in changing the position of Netanyahu, who again opted to appease the Israeli radical right, which threatens to bring down his government and rejects any concessions under the framework of the peace process.

Netanyahu could be displaced by the radical right.


On the other hand, 48% of those included in the poll think that Congress is not handling this case satisfactorily, but 53% of them believe that President Clinton deserves to be censored.

48% of the poll say that Congress is unsatisfactory, and 53% believe that President Clinton deserves to be replaced.


Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Harba said in a statement reported by the "SANA" News Agency that "the great interest in nomination for the People's Congress membership and the wide activity that accompanied it by the candidates, whether they were from the Progressive National Front or from the independent candidates, expressed the full maturity of the cause of democracy in our country."

There was great interest in nomination for the Congress from all candidates.


United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Anan, left Tripoli this evening, Saturday, heading to Tunisia following closed talks for one-and-a-half hours with the Libyan leader, Colonel Moammar Al Kaddafy, in the Libyan Desert.

Left the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Anan evening Saturday Tripoli on his way to Tunisia after talks closed for one hour and a half hours with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in Western Sahara Libyan Arab Jamahiriya


Mohammad Galal Abd Al-Kawi, author of the 15-episode series "The Priest and the Sheikh", says in a conversation with Agence France Presse today, Sunday, that he wrote these episodes "to respond to the biased campaigns in some Western media outlets, which are being directed by Jews, for the purpose of inciting subversion between Moslems and Copts."

Mohammad Galal Abd Al-Kawi wrote the series, "The Priest and the Sheikh," in retaliation to what he sees as Jewish propaganda of some Western media.


The demonstrators were calling for a trial of the right-wing politician, and on seeing them, he gave them a rude gesture, and the police then had to stop four demonstrators who tried to chace the senator.

Demonstrators gave the right-wing senator a rude gesture.


Three British tourists and a fourth who is Australian were killed yesterday when Yemeni police stormed the location where the hostages were detained in order to free them from their kidnappers. Two other tourists were wounded.

Yemeni police killed the hostage tourists yesterday when they raided the place where their kidnappers had been holding them.


President Arnoldo Aleman conceeded that the death toll was approximately 4,000, and a spokesman for the Government, Gilberto Wing, admitted many people were missing, and that bodies were still being found in some isolated areas.

Approximately 4,000 people are dead already, more bodies are still being found, and there are still many people missing.


He said that the episodes also show "the Copt's rejection of the British colonial power's attempts to incite sectarian subversion amidst the 1919 revolution, which was distinguished by the standing of Moslems and Copts on one side in the face of the colonial power."

He shows that worked together to reject the British colonial power.


The report listed 13 forms of maltreatment - including the so-called "From Beirut", where the victim and is stripped and beaten with force while lying on the ground.

One of the 13 forms of mistreatment is "From Beirut", where the victim is beaten while naked on the floor.


The Security Council, yesterday, "unanimously" condemned Iraq's decision to sever the relationship with the United Nations Special Commission in charge of disarming Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and asked Baghdad "to repeal its decision immediately and unconditionally."

The Security Council wants Iraq to change its decision.


Iowa has lost 26,000 manufacturing jobs since Bush took office.


During his trip to the Middle East that took three days, Clinton made the first visit by an American president to the Palestinian Territories and participated in a three-way meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

During his trip to the east of the Middle which lasted three days , the Clinton to first visit to American President to the occupied Palestinian territories and participated in meeting tripartite cooperation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President , Yasser Arafat


Raymond Eddeh, one of the Lebanese Christian opposition leaders, considered today, that the election of the Commander of the Lebanese Army, General Emile Lahoud as President of the Lebanese Republic, would constitute "a threat to democracy."

Raymond Eddeh, the opposition leader in the Lebanon, said that Lahoud's election as President of Syira, constitutes a "democratic threat."


The plane will be prepared for President Arafat's flight to Paris on Wednesday, after he confirmed that he would allocate his first international trip, to France.

Arafat will devote his first international trip to France.


Pope Shnouda III, the Copts' Patriarch, rejected this foreign interference in the affairs of the Copts of Egypt, stressing the solidarity between her Christians and Moslems by saying, "We do not accept foreign interference in our internal affairs, which we are resolving quietly with officials in our country."

Pope Shnouda III, asserted that the issues could be resolved peacefully without foreign interference, and that relations between the Christian and Moslem communities were good.


The opinion poll was conducted on the sixth and seventh of October, and included a cross section of 861 adults with a margin of error estimated at 4%.

The poll was carried out on the 6th and 7th of October.


The girl was found in Drummondville earlier this month.

The girl was discovered in Drummondville.


5-year-old, family prepare for risky marrow transplant.

5-year-old, family prepare for risky bone marrow transplant.


The American ground forces clashed with the insurgents for hours.

Insurgents slaughtered by American ground forces.


French adventurer continues to row across the Atlantic.

French adventurer continues to row across the Atlantic Ocean.


if you are at risk of heart problems, it is now recommended that you talk to your doctor about taking aspirin to prevent a first heart attack.

Aspirin use lowers risk of heart disease.


Rodriguez, a four-year NYPD officer, suffered burns to his legs and an eye injury in the explosion.


Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer in the world, was once a supporter of Osama bin Laden and his associates who led attacks against the United States.

Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest oil exporter.


The version for the PC has essentially the same packaging as those for the big game consoles, but players have been complaining that it offers significantly less versatility when it comes to swinging through New York.

Players have been complaining that it sells significantly less versatility when it comes to swinging through New York.


A poster campaign urging people not to eat smelly foods on London's overcrowded and overheated underground system has sparked a diplomatic incident with Italy.

A poster campaign calling for people not to eat smelly foods on London's overcrowded and overheated underground system has sparked a diplomatic incident with Italy.


"The Village" from The Walt Disney Co. debuts in 3,730 theaters, or 863 more than its next closest rival, Denzel Washington thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" in 2,867 venues, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations Inc.

"The Village" premiered in 3,730 theaters.


Design problems would delay the release of mobile computer chipset dubbed Alviso until next year.

Design problems would allow the release of mobile computer chipset dubbed Alviso until next year.


Stephen Hawking, a chap who knows a bit about physics, admitted yesterday that he was wrong about what happens when matter is sucked into a black hole.

Stephen Hawking lied about what happens when matter is sucked into a black hole.


Frenchman Thomas Voeckler still leads the Tour de France by 22 seconds and other contenders have drifted away.

Frenchman Thomas Voeckler provides data on the Tour de France.


Those accounts were not officially confirmed by the Uzbek or American governments.

The Uzbek or American governments confirmed those accounts.


With the Colosseum and a swollen golden moon rising above it as a backdrop, Simon & Garfunkel closed out the European leg of their Old Friends tour with hundreds of thousands of adoring fans stretched before them Saturday night.

Simon & Garfunkel finished off the European leg of their Old Friends tour.


North Korea said Friday the United States had put multilateral nuclear crisis talks in jeopardy by refusing to give up its hostile policy toward the communist state.

North Korea threatened to develop a "nuclear deterrent" unless the United States ends its "hostile policy".


Profits nearly doubled to nearly $1.8 billion.

Profits nearly tripled to nearly $1.8 billion.


Five other soldiers have been ordered to face courts-martial.

Five other soldiers have been demanded to face courts-martial.


Ohio has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs, and the county's unemployment rate was 6.4 percent in June, compared with 5.6 percent nationally.

Ohio has gained thousands of manufacturing jobs.


Freed Iraqi hostage Angelo de la Cruz thanks President Arroyo for helping secure his release.

Freed Iraqi hostage Angelo de la Cruz pays a visit to President Arroyo.


The Gaza unrest prompted Ahmed Qurei, prime minister, to threaten to quit.

The Gaza unrest spurred Ahmed Qurei into quitting.


Black holes can lose mass by radiating energy in the form of "Hawking radiation".

Black holes can regain some of their mass by radiating energy.


Council Member Michael Bush at large also voted against the pay hike, saying he felt that council members do not need more money.

Michael Bush urged council members to not spend more money.


Researchers have found evidence that some people inherit a genetic makeup that makes them more prone to aggression and violence.

Researchers have found that some people inherit a genetic makeup that makes them more inclined to aggression and violence.


Rodriguez was originally hailed as a hero for steering people away from the bomb that went off in the station at W. 43rd St. and Eighth Ave. during his second-to-last day on the job.


The girl's mother and grandmother have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

The girl's mother and grandmother face charges of conspiracy to commit murder.


The bombers had not managed to enter the embassy compounds.

The bombers entered the embassy compounds.


The Gaza unrest triggered Ahmed Qurei's threat to quit.


Vice President Dick Cheney told a crowd in Tuscon, Ariz., that the Bush team is "doing everything in our power to defend against a terrorist attack on our homeland" and repeated the theme later in New Mexico.

Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to a crowd in Tuscon, Ariz.


Mr. Clinton received a hefty advance for the book, reportedly $10m, but he joked that by the time he finished the 937-page tome "I was just about down to minimum wage".

Bill Clinton received a reported $10 million advance.


France on Saturday flew a planeload of United Nations aid into eastern Chad where French soldiers prepared to deploy from their base in Abeche toward the border with Sudan's Darfur region.

France crashed a planeload of United Nations aid into eastern Chad.


Frenchman Thomas Voeckler still leads the Tour de France by 22 seconds and other contenders have drifted away.

Frenchman Thomas Voeckler pollutes the Tour de France.


Weekly numbers also showed that refinancing activity sailed to its highest level since January and jobless claims dropped to the lowest level since the recession began in January of 2001.

Jobless claims fall to lowest level since January 2001.


U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq the day before the invasion began in March, and the United States has expressed no interest in letting them return now that its troops control the country.

U.N. weapons inspectors will go back to Iraq.


Spanish authorities have blamed the Madrid attacks on Islamic dissidents acting in the name of al-Qaida.

Spanish authorities attributed the Madrid attacks to Islamic dissidents.


Bush returned to the White House late Saturday while his running mate was off campaigning in the West.


Jobless claims hit lowest level since early 2001.

Jobless claims fell to lowest level since January 2001.


The prosecutor told the court that the incident had caused "distress" to one of the children.

The prosecutor told the court that "distress" in one of the children is ascribed to the incident.


Under the avalanche of Italian outrage London Underground has apologized and agreed to withdraw the poster.

London Underground opposed to withdraw the poster.


News reports said that the blast had been triggered by a man wearing an explosive vest and that as many as three people had been killed.

The blast had been set off by a man wearing an explosive vest.


Rodriguez was being treated at Columbia Presbyterian for psychiatric evaluation.

Rodriguez received treatment at Columbia Presbyterian.


Mr Arafat's opponents still blame him for the mounting lawlessness in the Palestinian territories.

Mr Arafat's opponents appealed to him to stop the mounting lawlessness in the Palestinian territories.


The report faults intelligence agencies for a "lack of imagination" in not anticipating that al Qaeda could attack the United States using hijacked aircraft.


Word that Allawi approved the attack was a clear attempt to show that the Iraqi government has taken full sovereignty from the Americans and has firm control, despite its deep reliance on the 160,000 foreign troops.

The Iraqi government has stolen full sovereignty from the Americans.


Mr Arafat's opponents accuse him of being responsible for the mounting lawlessness in the Palestinian territories.


It was not clear whether the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.


In 1884, with Ireland under the rule of the British Crown, a group of Irish nationalists met in County Galway to establish an organization for Irish athletes, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).


Allen & Overy has a leading practice in both France and Europe and the firm's partners devoted to capital markets work in Paris are principally Dan Lauder and Francois Poudelet.


Bush, who was a pitcher on his freshman year baseball team at Yale University, is shown here with Texas baseball legend, pitcher Nolan Ryan.

Bush purchased a small interest in the Yale University baseball team.


Built by the Caliph al-Walid (r. 705-715), of the Umayyad dynasty, El-Aksa is one of the largest and most important mosques in the Muslim world, and the earliest in Palestine.


On 2 February 1990, at the opening of Parliament, he declared that apartheid had failed and that the bans on political parties, including the ANC, were to be lifted.

Apartheid in South Africa was abolished in 1990.


Names in the News After Sweden swept three tennis matches to capture the Davis Cup, Yevgeny Kafelnikov restored a little Russian pride by defeating Stefan Edberg, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, in Moscow.


A cross between Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker would sound pretty good to most men, I believe.

Nicole Kidman is married to Sarah Jessica Parker.


Stjepan Mesic was the first Croatian president to deliver a public address at Harvard.

Stjepan Mesic was the first Croatian president.


The Ploce mayor Josko Damic spoke of the first Croatian president.

Josko Damic was the first Croatian president.


Morris has been working to develop independent filmmakers and was especially buoyed by the recent Cannes Film Festival where "Pulp Fiction" -- with director Quentin Tarantino and actors Willis and John Travolta, all Morris clients -- was the big winner.

Quentin Tarantino's film, "Pulp Fiction" won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.


Lisa Marie was aware of the pressures of being Elvis Presley's daughter, so she didn't exactly pursue songwriting that seriously.

Lisa Marie Presley's father was Elvis Presley.


Several months after the Taliban's defeat, Afghanistan presents MSF and other aid agencies with a new opportunity to provide health care for the female population of the conservative Islamic state.


Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has repeatedly boasted that American troops would be sent home in body bags if they intervened.

Radovan Karadzic is the leader of the Bosnian Serbs.


If Russia is excluded from NATO membership while Poland and Hungary are on the path to becoming NATO allies, how can Moscow avoid the conclusion that a renewed and enlarged NATO retains its traditional objective of confronting Russia?


Jorma joined Nokia in 1985 and held a variety of key management positions before taking the helm in 1992


Jerusalem, now controlled by Israel, is considered a holy city by Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Jerusalem is a Holy City for Jews, Christians and Muslims.


On February 21, 1994, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 52-year old employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Aldrich Hazen Ames, outside his Arlington, Virginia residence, on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Aldrich H. Ames was accused of spying for the Russians.


"If there is anything I want to do before I die," Nixon told Time in 1970, "it is to visit China."


In 1998, the General Assembly of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican Church in Japan) voted to accept female priests.

The Anglican church in Japan approved the ordination of women.


US presence puts Qatar in a delicate spot.


There are currently estimated to be somewhere between 60-100 million landmines in the ground worldwide, this remains a rough estimate since few accurate records were kept when mines were deployed.

There are about 100 million landmines in the world.


A volunteer army was led into Dublin by rebel Padraig Pearse, poet, schoolteacher and Republican leader and seized control of the General Post Office and other strategic locations nearby.

Padraig Pearse led a rebellion in Dublin.


Habyarimana was killed in a plane crash along with the president of Burundi on April 6, 1994.


Marilyn Monroe's last film, The Misfits, had already been in release for 16 months before her death on August 5, 1962, although her costar Clark Gable had died three months before the film's premiere in February 1961, giving that film a reputation as a multi-jinxed project.

Marilyn Monroe starred alongside Clark Gable in "The Misfits".


German film about Turkish immigrants won the Golden Bear best film award at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday and South Africa's Charlize Theron (news) won a Silver Bear best actress award for her role in "Monster."

"Monster" won the Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival.


Unterweger was found guilty of nine murders despite there being little evidence to prove it beyond doubt, and was found hanging from his cell roof less than 24 hours after being sentenced to life for a second time.


Working with fellow Canadians Charles Best and James Collip, Banting determined that insulin was the key to treating diabetes.


Princess Diana and Prince Charles divorced in 1996 after 15 years of marriage.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married in 1996.


Ulysses was launched in 1990 on a five-year mission to study the sun.


In Japan, organized crime and criminals come under the general heading of Yakuza.


The measures require Vietnamese organizations to channel the hard currency they earn through banks rather than holding it in cash, and for most cash payments to be made in dong.


Delimited by the stark severity of the mausoleum, the expansive facade of the world-famous GUM department store, and the exuberant colors of St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square is, and deserves to be, the requisite first stop for any visitor to Moscow.


Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom began as scraps of paper, buried under the floor of his prison cell.

Nelson Mandela's autobiography is called "The Long Walk to Freedom".


Chechnya is Russia's Haiti -- a mountainous, ethnic enclave half the Caribbean nation's size but more dangerous.


In 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish Officer in the French Army, was wrongly found Guilty of Treason and sentenced to Military Degradation and Life Imprisonment on Devil's Island a former leper colony off the North-East coast of South America, near the Equator.

Devil's Island is part of French Guyana.


Lyon is actually the gastronomic capital of France.


On screens instead is a stab at the kind of thriller/romance combination that Alfred Hitchcock turned out in treats like "North by Northwest."

Alfred Hitchcock directed "North by Northwest."


The Republic of Yemen is an Arab, Islamic and independent sovereign state whose integrity is inviolable, and no part of which may be ceded.

The national language of Yemen is Arabic.


"Caracas" is the word used by the aboriginal tribes which lived on the north coastal regions of the earlier Venezuela, for named an autochthonous kind of a plant called "Amaranth" in another places of the World.


Currently about a quarter of the country's two million people live in Ulan Bator.

The population of Ulan Bator is two million people.


According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation in the world, consisting of 13,670 islands.


Founder and owner of the Tamla-Motown family record labels, Berry Gordy, Jr., established Motown Records as one of the most important independent labels in the early '60s.

Berry Gordy Jr. started Mowtown Records.


Since early 1992 Ulysses has been monitoring the stream of stardust flowing through our Solar System.


From Via del Tritone we enter Via della Stamperia, which leads to the Trevi Fountain, certainly the most famous and spectacular fountain in Rome, made even more famous by the night-time wading of Anita Ekberg in Federico Fellini's film "La dolce vita'.


Each year, 26,000 people are killed or mutilated by landmines of which 8,000 are children

10,000 people are killed by landmines every year.


Besancon is the capital of France's watch and clock-making industry and of high precision engineering.


More than 1000 servicemen died in the battle for the Falklands, most of them Argentine. Argentina still lays claim to the islands, which it calls the Malvinas, and President Carlos Menem regularly vows to recover them by 2000.

The Argentinian name for the Falklands is Malvinas.


U.S. forces have disarmed Haitian paramilitaries, removed heavy weapons from the Haitian army, restored electric power to two cities, seized control of the country's radio and television broadcasting facilities, allowed the Haitian Parliament to reopen and restored the mayor of Port-au-Prince to his office -- "in less than three weeks," Clinton noted.


Dividing the Northside of Dublin from the Southside, the Liffey is spanned by road bridges.


The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC.


Surveying clean streets blessedly free of cars one morning this week, Fulvio Milone, a longtime newspaper correspondent based in Naples, says nobody expects the G-7 overhaul to be the opening salvo in a social revolution.


The Commission on the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions, headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, says in a study coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that the two institutions need basic changes.

The WB and the IMF were created at the Bretton Woods conference.


Sixteen years after the Detroit native began selling pieces of what was once America's biggest black-owned enterprise, Gordy announced a deal Wednesday that gives EMI Music Publishing ownership of Motown's 15,000 compositions.


The discovery of emissions of radiations from heavier elements like Uranium by Henry Bequerel in 1896, is known as radioactivity.

Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radioactivity.


Taslima Nasrin spent two months in hiding in Bangladesh, where Muslim fundamentalists were infuriated by a newspaper article that quoted her as urging a revision of the Koran, the Islamic holy book.


In early 1991 a referendum resulted in a large majority favouring secession from the USSR, and on 21 August, two days after a coup attempt against Gorbachev in Moscow, Latvia declared full independence.


The key to a blue moon is having in the air lots of particles slightly wider than the wavelength of red light (0.7 micron)--and no other sizes present.

A blue moon is caused by particles in the air.


In July and October, 1971, Dr. Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to the president of the United States, twice visited China in secret to pave the way for the visit by President Richard Nixon.


"Finding Forrester" is among 24 films competing for the Berlin Film Festival's top Golden Bear prize for best movie awarded on the closing day, along with the Silver Bear award for best actor.

"Finding Forrester" won the Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival


In February 2002, President George Bush visited China to mark the 30th anniversary of Nixon's historic trip.


The Chernobyl nuclear-power plant is in Ukraine, but the reactor that exploded during the night of April 26, 1986, is only 10 miles from the Belarusian border.

The Chernobyl disaster took place on the 26th of April, 1986.


Michael Herman, spokesman for the Euskirchen prosecutor's office, said, "As far as I know, this is the first time anything like this has happened in a German court."


Eleven more moons found orbiting Jupiter.


After officials repeatedly refused to release thirteen members of the Red Brigades on trial in Turin, Moro was murdered in or near Rome on May 9, 1978.

Aldo Moro was murdered by the Red Brigade.


It's a lesson that George Bush learned from his mother, Barbara, a fiercely territorial woman who never forgets a slight, and from his father, former president George H.W. Bush.


At year-end 1997 the death penalty was authorized by the statutes of 38 States and by Federal statute.

38 American states have the daeth penalty.


Zimmermann's appointment represents a surprising twist in the search to find a successor to Goetz Friedrich, whose 20-year stint at the helm of the Deutsche Oper comes to an end in 2001.

Goetz Friedrich was the director of the Deutsche Oper.


EuroDisney is located only 20 miles from Paris and you can get to Fontainebleau in about an hour by train.


That agreement created the international group opposing the Triple Alliance-France, Great Britain, and Russia had formed the Triple Entente.

France, Russia and Britain signed the Triple Entente.


In the 1970s Paisley, sometimes affectionately known as 'Big Ian', established the most successful and longest lasting of his political movements, the Democratic Unionist Party which soon won seats at local council, province, national and European level.


Under unprecedented public pressure, the museum has drastically altered its original plans for its exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Enola Gay's only mission: the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.

The first atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima.


Microsoft was established in Italy in 1985.


The $100,000 award, to be presented to Taylor in May by the president of Israel, is one of six given annually by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation.


The Eiffel tower is in the Capital of France.


The recognition means that Iraq has abandoned its traditional claim to Kuwait, a claim that Hussein invoked as his excuse for invading the small emirate in 1990 and precipitating the Persian Gulf War that ended with his defeat.

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait took place in 1990.


"Look!" Turner shouts, pulling back the curtain in his new office to show off his perfect view of the giant red CNN logo that identifies his former headquarters.

Ted Turner founded the CNN news channel.


The ceiling now on legal immigration from Cuba is 27,845 a year, but only about 3,000 Cubans a year have been able to meet the stiff U.S. visa requirements.

27,845 Cubans are allowed to immigrate to the United States each year.


The fact that Einstein was invited to be the president of Israel is critical to an accurate understanding of one of the greatest individuals in modern history.


The official state opening on May 6 of the $14.82-billion project will go on as planned, and Eurotunnel said it is working to start up services soon after that deadline.


And it's very important, I think Secretary Powell will understand, it's important to hear from President Katsav, to hear how he reads the Israeli public mood with respect to ongoing battles with the Palestinians, or with respect to, for instance, trust with the Palestinian Authority, trust in the possibility of dealing with Yasser Arafat.

Yasser Arafat is the president of Israel.


Ms. Nasrin is being hosted by the Swedish branch of PEN, which had invited her to visit last spring, according to the Swedish news agency TT.


The oddest thing about the UAE's population is that only 500,000 of the 2 million people living in the country are UAE citizens; the rest are expatriates from other Gulf countries, and from Pakistan, Iran and India.


During El Nino (bottom panel of the schematic diagram), the trade winds relax in the central and western Pacific leading to a depression of the thermocline in the eastern Pacific, and an elevation of the thermocline in the west.


Although Honecker led the Communist East German state between 1971 and 1989, he will be remembered most for what he did long before -- building the Berlin Wall.


Four-fifths of the UAE is desert, yet it is a country of contrasting landscapes, from awe-inspiring dunes to rich oases, precipitous rocky mountains to fertile plains.


In fact, the Smashing Pumpkins -- who were bumped into the headline slot after Nirvana pulled out of the tour shortly before Kurt Cobain's suicide -- have far exceeded expectations.

Kurt Cobain was the singer and head of Nirvana.


In 1996, Shaq became a free agent and accepted a $120 million dollar offer from the LA Lakers.

Shaquille O Neal plays for the Orlando Magic.


France's Gastronomic Capital is Much, Much More.


Meeting in Moscow with IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei 29 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the Agency's work in expressing his country's continuing and full support.

Hans Blix is the Director General of IAEA.


On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Elvis Presley died on December 21, 1970.


The technological triumph known as GPS - the Global Positioning System of satellite-based navigation - was incubated in the mind of Ivan Getting.


It has access to the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Uraba in the northwesternmost part of the department, while in central Antioquia two ranges of the Colombian Andeas meet.


The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq, directly blamed George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death.


The Queen of Holland is now owned by Robert Mouawad.


The Cyrillic alphabet achieved its current form in 1708 during the reign of Peter the Great.

The Cyrillic alphabet was introduced in 863.


They are made from the dust of four of Jupiter's tiniest moons.


De La Rue is the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers.

De La Rue makes much of the world's money.


After an unparalleled succession of tragic operas, Verdi rounded off his operatic career with a comedy.


At present the UK's birth rate (England's is not dropping quite so clearly as Scotland's) sits in the middle of the European range -- with Italy, Spain, and Germany with the lowest rates and Ireland's showing the most rapid fall.

Ireland has the highest European birth rate.


The regional capital is Clermont Ferrand, and the small city of Le Puy, with its historic churches perched on volcanic pinnacles, is one of the most surprising cities in France.

Clermont Ferrand is the capital of France.


The Amish began as a small faith group that split-off from the Swiss Mennonites during the late 17th century.

The Amish are descendants of the Swiss Anabaptists of 16th-Century Europe.


This autumn, the people of Ust-Usa watched helplessly as thousands of tons of oil began oozing into the vast watery network that flows from the desecrated oil fields of Usinsk into the Pechora, then 450 miles north through the tundra to the Barents Sea.

A huge methane deposit has been located in the Barents Sea.


The official state opening on May 6 of the $14.82-billion project will go on as planned, and Eurotunnel said it is working to start up services soon after that deadline.

The Eurotunnel cost 10 thousand million pounds.


The roads and paths, forests and pastures of an estimated 70 countries around the world have been made treacherous by landmines.

Up to 70 countries are effected by landmines.


Wasn't it after the women's conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence?

The World Conference on Women took place in Beijing.


Since the beginning of this year, pork, the most important meat in the Chinese diet, has jumped to 7.28 yuan (86 cents) a pound, up from 4.55 yuan (54 cents).


The establishment of full Communist control in Hungary in the summer of 1948 and the blockade of the Western sector of Berlin confirmed Western suspicions and contributed to the formation of NATO.

Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.


On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel.


The time period in concern is from early 1944 to 1945, and the topic being the Kamikaze pilots, and the region of research was within Japan, mainly Kyushu.

Japanese suicide pilots are called kamikaze pilots.


In Hungary the decisive moment, portending the end of the democratic prelude to Communist dictatorship, came in February 1947.

Communist control in Hungary ended in 1947.


Los Angeles poet and fiction writer Charles Bukowski, who died of leukemia on March 9 at the age of 73, managed to create a life worthy of his face.


Saint Laurent struck out on his own in 1961, opening his own fashion house where he created haute couture for socialites and celebrities.

Yves Saint Laurent is a fashion designer.


Washington was re-elected president in 1792, and the following year the most divisive crisis arising out of the personal and political conflicts within his cabinet occurred--over the issue of American neutrality during the war between England and France.

George Washington was the first president of America.


Although a Roscommon man by birth, born in Rooskey in 1932, Albert "The Slasher" Reynolds will forever be a Longford man by association.

Albert Reynolds was born in Co. Roscommon.


Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe on why the defending NBA champion Houston Rockets don't get more respect: "There's year-round heat and humidity, an airport about 100 miles from downtown and the building with the most sports tradition is Elvin Hayes' car dealership."

The Houston Rockets won the NBA Championships.


Lennon's introduction from Jurgen's book sums things up reasonably well: "Jurgen Vollmer was the first photographer to capture the beauty and the spirit of the Beatles".


Mrs. Lane, who has been a Director since 1989, is Special Assistant to the Board of Trustees and to the President of Stanford University.

Mrs. Lane is the president of Stanford University.


The people who gave Yeltsin a solid majority in his presidential run in 1991 now accord him a 19% approval rating -- his lowest ever -- according to a recent national poll.


Released on 11 February 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier.

Nelson Mandela served 27 years of imprisonment.


The Bangladesh Government has banned the latest novel by feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen on the grounds that its contents might hurt the existing social system and religious sentiments of the people.

Nasreen's novel was banned for religious reasons.


It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the chasm between east and west Germans is as wide as it was before the heady, history days of November, 1989, when they were no longer divided by cement and electrified wire.

The reunification of East and West Germany took place in 1989.


The Venice Film Festival opened Thursday with a dispute over a celebrity judge threatening to steal the limelight from Oliver Stone, whose "Natural Born Killers" is favored to win the Golden Lion Award.

The "Golden Lion" is awarded at the Venice Film Festival.


The Hitler Historical Museum is a non-biased, non-profit museum devoted to the study and preservation of the world history related to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party.


Mystified by the sudden disappearance of Commander John Strangways, their agent in Jamaica, the British Secret Service sends for agent Bond.

James Bond is an agent for the British Secret Service.


Over the long haul, Washington is waiting for death to come to Kim Il Sung -- the 82-year-old North Korean dictator, known to his countrymen as the Great Leader, who has been the country's unchallenged power since before the 1953 Korean War armistice.


For German fans, Schumacher is their country's first - and long-overdue - World Champion, following along 33 years after the aristocratic Count Wolfgang von Trips was killed of the wheel of his Ferrari in the Italian Gp just as he seemed poised to grasp the title crown.


Lyon acclaims itself to be the gastronomic capital of France.


Mahayana Buddhism (sometimes called Northern Buddhism) is largely found in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia.


During his time in office, Albert Reynolds, side by side with then English Prime Minister John Major, brokered the first real hope for peace in the North; something for which all the people on this Island should be eternally grateful to him.

Albert Reynolds signed a peace agreement with John Major.


The hostage-takers -- who have identified themselves as members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons, part of the Islamic Army of Iraq -- had issued several deadlines for its demands to be met, only to shift them.

The Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons are part of the Islamic Army of Iraq.


AOL has more than 33 million paying customers.


Administration officials say President George W. Bush has narrowed his field of candidates for CIA director to at least two people, just two weeks after outgoing director George Tenet announced his departure.


Israel captured the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war.

The Gaza Strip and West Bank were captured by Israel in the 1976 war.


Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.

Titan is about the size of the planet Mars.


Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down a U.S. helicopter Thursday in the holy city of Najaf.

A U.S. helicopter flew loyalists of Moqtada al-Sadr.


Infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing despite being unable to produce children themselves.

Infertile women are able to produce children.


A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.

One man was killed and four wounded in a shark attack in West Australia.


The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach, Berni Ahern, if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission.

The Taoiseach is the president of The European Commission.


Four French detainees who were held more than two years by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay returned home Tuesday.

The U.S. detained four frenchmen for almost three years at Guantanamo Bay.


The pair had originally planned to leave from the American hatch in Nasa spacesuits.


The death last year of an 84-year-old man killed while swimming in an Australian canal was one of only four fatal shark attacks around the world in 2003.

An 84-year-old man was killed by a shark in 2003.


Cool, humid weather Sunday helped slow the advance of a fire that caused the evacuation of hundreds of homes and businesses in Alaska's Interior.

Cool, humid weather can slow the advance of fire.


Twenty-five British police officers are recovering after a day of skirmishes in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


A suicide car bomber detonated early Wednesday near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis -- seven civilians and three National Guard members.


The fires also threatened the Mount Graham International Observatory, home of some of the world's most advanced telescopes.

Some of the world's most advanced telescopes are housed at the Mount Graham International Observatory.


More than 200 North Koreans flew into South Korea on Wednesday, the second day of a secretive operation that has spirited refugees from the communist North from an unidentified Southeast Asian country.

North Korean's communist refugees fled to an unidentified Southeast Asian country.


Vice President Dick Cheney's personal doctor was battling an addiction to prescription drugs four years ago.

Dick Cheney was addicted to prescription drugs.


China will start scouring high schools for its potential first woman astronaut next year, following a suggestion from the country's leading women's group.

China's first female astronaut will take off next year.


The centuries-old Pamplona fiesta in honor of St. Fermin draws thousands of fans from around the world for a week of frenzied late night drinking and early morning running with the bulls.

The Pamplona fiesta has been celebrated for centuries.


Scientists have taken a big step toward developing an earlier, safer and simple test that could help prevent perhaps 175,000 premature births in the United States each year.

There are about 175,000 premature births in the United States each year.


Wal-Mart Stores has asked a US federal appeals court to review a judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit.

Wal-Mart stores are filing a lawsuit against the US federal appeals court.


Five schoolchildren who were headed to a picnic in a bus were wounded in crossfire between Indian soldiers and suspected rebels who attacked an army convoy on a highway outside Srinagar.

An army convoy was attacked by rebels on a highway outside of Srinagar.


U.S. oil prices approached $40 as they rose to a five-week peak on Wednesday.

Oil prices decreased over the last five weeks.


Every year, 1.2 million people in America have a new or repeat heart attack.

1.2 million Americans die of heart attacks every year.


The biggest fires on Mount Graham, the lightning-sparked Nuttall and Gibson fires, had joined but were 55 percent contained Sunday, firefighters said.

The Nuttall and Gibson fires were caused by lightning.


President Bush returned to the Mountain State to celebrate Independence Day, telling a spirited crowd yesterday that on its 228th birthday the nation is "moving forward with confidence and strength."

President Bush does not celebrate Independence Day.


Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.

Iamgold is Conway's chief executive officer.


Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of drug trafficking, murder, rape and armed robbery are executed by beheading, which is carried out in public with a sword.


Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection characterized by violent coughing fits, gasps for air that resemble "whoop" sounds, and vomiting.

Whooping cough is also called pertussis.


British and Iranian officials resumed discussions Thursday on the release of eight British navy personnel held in Iran earlier this week.

Eight British navy personnel are being held in Iran.


Freixo also denied that Silva was the peacemaker, saying negotiations were concluded when Silva was sent in by Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Rosinha Matheus, who also is an Evangelical Christian.

Rosinha Matheus is an Evangelical Christian.


The controversy-racked oil giant Shell has named a new head of finance in an effort to calm nervous shareholders.


Doctors Without Borders has 80 foreign workers and 1,400 local staff members working in 13 provinces in Afghanistan.


The SPD got just 21.5% of the vote in the European Parliament elections, while the conservative opposition parties polled 44.5%.

The SPD got less votes than the opposition in the European election.


A crowd of Catholic hardliners attacked the officers after yesterday's parades by the Orange Order, the major Protestant brotherhood.

The Orange Order is a major Protestant brotherhood.


The tests cover seven subject areas and are given annually.


Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has accompanied an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.

Chris de Burgh bought the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien for nearly £30,000.


One of whooping cough's symptoms is vomiting.


One person was also killed and four wounded when a mortar round hit a hospital.

A hospital containing four wounded people killed one when a mortar hit.


However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.

Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Zarqawi's group.


German Chancellor Schroeder has presided over three years of almost zero growth in the economy and an unemployment rate that has remained stubbornly above four million people.

In the last three years the German economy has grown considerably.


A virus similar to that causing breast cancer in mice may play a role in causing breast cancer in women, suggesting that not only cancerogens are responsible for the disease.

Breast cancer in mice is caused by a virus.


Tests on animals showed they could get through the stomach wall and the thin membrane surrounding the stomach called the peritoneum to repair the intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder and uterus.

The thin membrane surrounding the stomach is called the peritoneum.


The strikingly realistic image was etched into the soft limestone roof a Nottinghamshire cave by a paleolithic artist around 13,000 years ago.

The paleolithic era was around 13,000 years ago.


The Philippines has begun pulling its troops out of Iraq, a move seemingly being made to satisfy demands by kidnappers of a Filipino hostage.


A former petty thief who converted and founded his own church, Silva is a devoted jailhouse preacher who claims to have ended 11 prison rebellions in recent years.


Television news crews in helicopters recorded the early morning car chase that ended in Compton shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday when half a dozen LAPD officers chased a black man who ran from a stolen Toyota Camry.

Television news crews chased LAPD officers who ran from a stolen Toyota Camry.


Microsoft said later this summer it will upgrade its free Hotmail accounts from 2MB storage to 250MB.

Later this summer, Microsoft will be charging $250 for its Hotmail accounts.


Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.

Mr. Conway is Iamgold's chief executive officer.


An ambulance crew responding to an anonymous call found a 3-week-old baby girl in a rundown house Monday, two days after she was snatched from her mother at a Melbourne shopping mall.

A baby girl bought an ambulance at a Melbourne shopping mall.


Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it.

Most Americans have not heard of the Food Guide Pyramid.


The centuries-old Pamplona fiesta in honor of St. Fermin draws thousands of fans from around the world for a week of frenzied late night drinking and early morning running with the bulls.


Since the last AIDS conference in Barcelona in 2002 generated optimism about the availability of new antiretroviral drugs, 6 million people have died of AIDS and 10 million people have become newly infected.

10 million people have died of AIDS since 2002.


Canadian wireless technology licensing company Wi-LAN has begun legal action against Cisco, alleging the networking giant's Linksys and Aironet products are making use of its intellectual property without permission.


Every year, 1.2 million people in America have a new or repeat heart attack.

Every year, 1.2 million Americans have a heart attack.


The number of sexually transmitted infections 708,083 was 4 percent higher than in 2002, but Britain's Health Protection Agency said the pace of the increase appears to be slowing.

In 2002 708,083 sexually transmitted infections were reported.


In further violence, two Iraqis suspected of trying to bomb a pipeline in the country's oil-rich north and a Kirkuk policeman were killed Wednesday.

The country's oil-rich north and a Kirkuk policeman were killed Wednesday.


The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud "the size of Italy," several crisscrossing linear features, and a huge circular area that could be a crater the size of Western Europe.

The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud the size of Western Europe.


The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s.


Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.


Yasir Arafat has agreed to appoint a longtime loyalist as interior minister to take charge of the country's security.

Yasir Arafat nominated a loyalist as interior minister.


About 85 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church, though just 5 percent attend church services regularly.

85 percent of Danes attend church services regularly.


The Arab news network says militants killed Army Specialist Keith Maupin of Batavia, Ohio, by shooting him.


Sunday's election results demonstrated just how far the pendulum of public opinion has swung away from faith in Koizumi's promise to bolster the Japanese economy and make the political system more transparent and responsive to the peoples' needs.

Koizumi promised to bolster the Japanese economy.


Authorities spent about seven hours at the mosque and two houses, seizing numerous documents, a government official said.

Two hours were spent at the seven mosques.


The Supreme Court rules that persons seized as potential terrorists must be allowed to challenge their imprisonment in American courts.

Potential terrorists are allowed to a trial.


After giving nearly 5,000 people a second chance at life, doctors are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Britian's first heart transplant which was performed at Cambridgeshire's Papworth Hospital in 1979.

Nearly 5,000 people have died of heart failure in Britian since 1979.


Abu Eisa al-Hindi was said to have been involved in a plot to attack Heathrow airport, details of which were allegedly discovered on the computer of Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, 25, an al-Qa'ida suspect recently arrested in Pakistan.

Abu Eisa al-Hindi was recently arrested in Pakistan.


U.S. oil prices approached $40 as they rose to a five-week peak on Wednesday.


Friday's court ruling in The Hague, rejected by Israel, carries no real significance, other than a symbolic victory for the Palestinians.

The Hague ruled in favor of the Palestinians on Friday.


Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has aa an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.

An untold number of wedding first dances are accompanied by the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.


Sources at the foreign affairs department in Manila said on Monday that the militants had rejected suggestions of a ransom in exchange for de la Cruz's release.

Militants agreed to receive a ransom in exchange for de la Cruz's release.


A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.

30 men have been killed by sharks in West Australia.


A local man was impaled five times in a frenzied dash through Pamplona in the most dramatic of bull runs so far this year.

A Pamplona local was impaled five times.


Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.

Mr. Conway said the vote would be close.


According to the American Diabetes Association, 17 million Americans are living with diabetes, 90 percent with Type Two Diabetes.

17 million Americans are living with Type Two Diabetes.


The Japanese supported Koizumi in Sunday's elections.


Another diplomat confirmed the United States was pushing hard for an accord, adding two high-level meetings were scheduled at NATO's Brussels headquarters Wednesday to try to hammer out a deal.

NATO's Brussels headquarters is trying to dissolve the deal that the United States was pushing for.


The hostage-takers -- who have identified themselves as members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons, part of the Islamic Army of Iraq -- had issued several deadlines for its demands to be met, only to shift them.

Members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons took a hostage.


A Health Ministry official said 68 people were killed and 30 wounded in the blast shortly after 10 a.m. in Baquba, an often violent town 65 km north of Baghdad.


De la Cruz's family said he had gone to Saudi Arabia a year ago to work as a driver after a long period of unemployment.


The 69-page report is also the first major product of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction.

The 69-page report is the first major product of medical errors.


Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it and the government claims that the proof is that two out of three Americans are fat.


A suicide car bomber detonated early Wednesday near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis -- seven civilians and three National Guard members.

Seven Iraqi civilians were killed in a suicide bombing on Wednesday.


Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has accompanied an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.

Chris de Burgh wrote the song The Lady in Red.


Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.

IBM is based in Mountain View, California.


The IBM Software group has acquired 16 companies since 2001, starting with the purchase of Informix.


Chirac also called on rich nations to raise donations to the 2 1/2-year-old U.N. Global Fund -- aimed primarily at fighting AIDS -- by $3 billion per year.

The U.N. Global Fund uses most of its funds for fighting AIDS.


Sources at the de la Cruz foreign affairs department refused to release Manila in exchange for a ransom.


Egypt, which has pressed Arafat to surrender some powers and overhaul the security forces, welcomed Qureia's withdrawal of his resignation.

Qureia's resignation was welcomed by Egypt.


Japan's voter turnout was just over 56 percent for the Upper House elections.

Less than half of the eligible Japanese voters participated in the vote.


The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud "the size of Italy," several crisscrossing linear features, and a huge circular area that could be a crater the size of Western Europe.

The spacecraft's photographs show a crater "the size of Italy".


De la Cruz went to Saudi Arabia a year ago.


Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.

Titan is the largest of Saturn's 31 moons.


North Korean refugees had been gathering in southern Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, after trickling over the border from China for months.


Political leaders pledged that construction of the so-called Freedom Tower -- which will rise 1,776 feet into the air and be the world's tallest building -- will be finished on schedule by the end of 2008.

The Freedom Tower will be 1,776 meters tall.


Since the last AIDS conference in Barcelona in 2002 generated optimism about the availability of new antiretroviral drugs, 6 million people have died of AIDS and 10 million people have become newly infected.

6 million people have died of AIDS since 2002.


A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.

A 30-year-old man was killed in a shark attack while surfing.


Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection characterized by violent coughing fits, gasps for air that resemble "whoop" sounds, and vomiting.


Iraqi militants have repeatedly used terrorist attacks to try to force governments to withdraw from the U.S.-led occupation force.

Iraqi militants were forced to withdraw from the U.S.-led occupation force.


Napster, which started as an unauthorized song-swapping Web site, has transformed into a legal service offering music downloads for a monthly fee.

Napster illegally offers music downloads.


Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.

Four firefighters were killed while saving a man stuck in a burning building.


The accord failed to resolve the controversy over Arafat's appointment of his unpopular cousin Moussa Arafat as chief of security in Gaza.

Moussa Arafat is Yasser Arafat's most popular cousin.


One of two men "released" early on Saturday Mohammed Dawoud, 19, of Willesden, north-west London will appear before Horseferry Road magistrates' court today charged with possession of forged identity documents, police said.

Willesden will be released early on Saturday.


The authentication was arranged by the proprietor of a small Moscow gallery, Borislav Shervinsky, we have established.

Borislav Shervinsky is the proprietor of a small Moscow gallery.


Senior citizens played an important role in the dramatic spread of human civilisation some 30,000 years ago

The dramatic spread of human civilisation some 30,000 years ago played an important role in senior citizens' lives.


Eight of the 51 Philippine humanitarian troops in Iraq have already left the country, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert said early Wednesday.

Delia Albert is the Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary.


U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell replied that the people of Darfur in the remote west of Sudan did not have much time before disease and starvation causes widespread death.


The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach, Berni Ahern, if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission.


Ron Gainsford, chief executive of the TSI, said: "It is a major concern to us that parents could be unwittingly exposing their children to the risk of sun damage, thinking they are better protected than they actually are.

Ron Gainsford is the chief executive of the TSI.


Chirac also called on rich nations to raise donations to the 2 1/2-year-old U.N. Global Fund -- aimed primarily at fighting AIDS -- by $3 billion per year.

Chirac believes that rich nations should donate more to the fight against AIDS.


The ICC, the first permanent global criminal tribunal, was set up in July 2002 to try individuals accused of crimes against humanity -- genocide, war crimes and other human rights abuses.

The ICC is the first permanent global criminal tribunal.


Iraq has entered its first full day under the leadership of a newly sovereign interim government, beginning a transformation that its prime minister calls "a major task" likely to take many years.

Iraq's prime minister believes that the transformation of their government will likely take several years.


Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it.

Americans know how to use the Food Guide Pyramid.


Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.


All but 11 of the 107 patients and all of the employees had been notified by late yesterday to come to the hospital for an evaluation and antibiotics.

11 patients out of the 107 were invited to the hospital for a check-up and antibiotics.


The U.S. ambassador to Manila Francis Ricciardone threw his support behind Arroyo in an interview with local television on Monday.

Arroyo is the U.S. ambassador to Manila.


About 85 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church, though just 5 percent attend church services regularly.

Only about 5 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church.


The suicide bombing came as the Iraqi interim government marked its first month in power since the United States handed over sovereignty on June 28 following the coalition's March 2003 invasion.

The United States handed over sovereignty to the Iraqi interim government in March 2003.


Tanning salons are increasingly popular - their use tripled from 1986 to 1996.

In the 10 years between 1986 and 1996, the use of tanning salons tripled.


Jessica Litman, a law professor at Michigan's Wayne State University, has specialized in copyright law and Internet law for more than 20 years; she is also the author of Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet

Michigan's Wayne State University employs Jessica Litman.


In all, military police have launched 93 investigations into allegations of mistreatment by UK soldiers.

UK military police have launched 93 investigations.


Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.

Four firefighters were killed in Venezuela.


The thick atmosphere of Titan makes it difficult for even the largest telescopes on Earth to see anything clearly.

Telescopes on Earth cannot see Titan clearly.


Four firefighters were killed in a car accident.


A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to Saudi Arabian officials.

Osama bin Laden is the leader of al Qaeda.


On the 35th anniversary of the first lunar landing, NASA struggled with money problems as it aimed to return to human space flight after the Columbia disaster and ultimately put people back on the moon.


Tests on animals showed they could get through the stomach wall and the thin membrane surrounding the stomach called the peritoneum to repair the intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder and uterus.

The stomach wall is called the peritoneum.


Napster, which started as an unauthorized song-swapping Web site, has transformed into a legal service offering music downloads for a monthly fee.


The organizers of the 15th International AIDS Conference, scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday responded to press reports that a prominent hotel in Bangkok discriminated against HIV-positive visitors attending a different conference this month.

A famous hotel in Bangkok is accused of discrimination against HIV-positive customers


Francis Ricciardone is the U.S. ambassador to Manila.


Every year 40,000 babies are born with disorders related to prenatal drinking.

Prenatal drinking can be connected to disorders in babies.


A former petty thief who converted and founded his own church, Silva is a devoted jailhouse preacher who claims to have ended 11 prison rebellions in recent years.


One of Michigan's largest newspaper chains agreed to be sold to the Journal Register Co. of Trenton, N.J., on Tuesday for $415 million in an auction.

The Journal Register Co. of Trenton, N.J. is Michigan's largest newspaper chain.


The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s.

Thousands have fled South Korea's famine and repression since the late 1990's.


Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down a U.S. helicopter Thursday in the holy city of Najaf.

Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down Najaf.


Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.


LOSAIL, Qatar (AFP) - Torrential rain caused the season-opening Qatar MotoGP to be cancelled on Sunday, leaving officials and teams in a frenzy before deciding to race on Monday instead at this floodlit desert venue. Monsoon-like conditions, accompanied by swirling winds, arrived just moments before Australia's Casey Stoner, on pole position, was due to lead defending world champion Valentino Rossi and the other riders away on the warm-up lap. "It's just unlucky with the weather," said Australian Ducati rider Stoner, the 2007 world champion, who was bidding for a third successive win here.

Valentino Rossi won the season-opening Qatar MotoGP.