INDONESIA: Missing airliner not located - officials
MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Reuters): The fate of an Indonesian airliner missing with 102 people on-board remained in doubt late yesterday after senior officials apologised for erroneously stating that its wreckage had been found.
US pays tribute to Ford
WASHINGTON (Reuters): Washington paid tribute to former President Gerald Ford at a state funeral yesterday, hailing him as a leader who helped heal America's divisions after the Watergate scandal.
UNITED KINGDOM - British Gov't ponders tougher driving tests
LONDON (Reuters): The British Government may consider introducing tougher driving tests in a bid to cut the number of deaths in road crashes, the Department for Transport (DfT) said yesterday.
MIDEAST: Saddam hanging nearly halted over jeers - prosecutor
BAGHDAD (Reuters): A senior Iraqi court official nearly halted Saddam Hussein's execution when supporters of a radical Shi'ite cleric and militia leader taunted the former president as he stood on the gallows.
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