ISRAEL - Sharon fights for life
JERUSALEM (Reuters): PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon, deeply sedated and on a respirator, clung to life yesterday after a severe stroke that is likely to create a huge vacuum in Israeli politics and the Middle East peace process.
UNITED STATES - Residents seek healing after mine disaster
TALLMANSVILLE, West Virginia (AP): WITH THEIR escape routes blocked by heavy smoke, most of the 13 miners caught in an explosion did what they were trained to do: they retreated deeper into the mine and hung a curtain-like barrier to keep out toxic...
GERMANY: Twelve of the ice rink victims were children
BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (Reuters): ALL BUT three of the 15 people killed when the roof of an ice rink in southern Germany collapsed were children aged between nine and 16, police said yesterday.
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