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First Pregnancy From Frozen Ovaries

[Brussels, Belgium] For the first time a woman has become pregnant after having thin slices of her ovaries removed and frozen during cancer treatment, and then re-implanted. The woman became pregnant naturally...

Bush Filmed In Underwear

[Dromoland Castle, Ireland] After spotting the camera, he quickly backtracked, and allowed one of his aides to open the bedroom window instead....

The person behind the lens was not a member of the paparazzi, it was the host broadcaster -- and that meant the pictures were shared with media outlets around the world.

Other news

• In a ceremony attended by over a dozen congressmen, Rev Sun Myung Moon finally fulfills America's hopes of a non-Jewish messiah.

Ex-Wife Says Ryan Pushed Sex Clubs

[Chicago, IL] Actress Jeri Ryan accused ex-husband Jack Ryan of insisting she go to "explicit sex clubs" in New York, New Orleans and Paris during their marriage -- including "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."

Jack Ryan wanted her to have sex with him while others watched, [she] alleged.

Other news

• US running out of hypocrisies. State Department classifying countries sheltering sex-trafficking sign the US will begin conducting sex tours soon.

Limbaugh Announces End Of 10-Year Marriage

[West Palm Beach, FL] Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he and his wife, Marta, were divorcing....

It was the third marriage for both Limbaugh, 53, and his 44-year-old wife, who were wed May 27, 1994 at the Virginia home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas officiated the ceremony....

The criminal case against him is on hold pending a decision from the 4th District Court of Appeal. The court will decide whether the seizure of Limbaugh's medical records, which were taken by investigators in November [to verify he'd been duplicating prescriptions], violated privacy laws.

Other news

• Kerry passes note to McCain in gym class. McCain checks "No."
• McDonald's introducing low-carb Coke. Carbon dioxide to be replaced with laughing gas. Figured it was about time the Happy Meal lived up to its name.

Long Road To Vindication

...after five years of fighting to get school officials and police to acknowledge that they bungled the investigation, Stuart got vindication last week when the town of Andover [MA] agreed to pay $175,000 to settle the federal civil rights suit that Stuart and her mother and stepfather, Cynthia and Raymond Arsenault, filed...

...in March 2000, state prosecutors dropped the bomb threat charge against Stuart, citing grave doubts about the competency of the husband and wife handwriting analysts who provided the only evidence against her....

[Stuart's attorney] Henry said even a child should have been skeptical of the Hennesseys after seeing the resume they faxed to police. It was in a question-and-answer format, with words typed in various sizes of print, some in bold and underlined. It boasted that they worked for free, unlike the "whores of the court" who are paid to analyze handwriting....

Arsenault said she was able to become a member of the same [World Association of Document Examiners the Hennesseys belonged to] by sending in an application and paying $375....

Paul Hennessey had testified in a deposition he gave in the Stuart lawsuit that he knew Stuart was going to Wentworth [College] and he planned to warn the school that she was a security threat, prompting [Judge] Tauro to issue a restraining order [against Hennessey.]

Other news

• Dog handlers testify they were ordered to intimidate Abu Ghraib detainees, contradicting Pres. Bush and the Pentagon.
• Ray Charles hit the road, and won't be coming back no more.

'Gilligan' Hopes Wichita Has Its Mary Ann

"We're looking for real people in those real jobs," said Sally Ann Salsano, one of four producers of the "The Real Gilligan's Island," a reality show set to air on TBS this fall.

"...we want our Mary Ann to be a real Kansas girl. We don't want her to be in drag," Salsano said with a chuckle.

More Enron Tapes, More Gloating

The Department of Justice reportedly has thousands of hours of Enron employees recorded during the West Coast power crisis. Now, some in Congress want all the tapes released....

After CBS broadcast the voices of Enron energy traders gloating over the crisis they helped create, more tapes were released.... The tapes show Enron tried to bring California to its knees.

• In one tape, an employee says, "You gotta think the economy is going to f------g get crushed, man. This is like a recession waiting to f-----g happen."
• Elsewhere on the tapes, another employee says, "This is where California breaks."
• "What we need to do is to help in the cause of, ah, downfall of California," an employee is heard saying on the tapes. "You guys need to pull your megawatts out of California on a daily basis."
• "They're on the ropes today," says another employee. "I exported like a f------g 400 megs."

Bangladeshi UN Diplomat Recalled After Husband's Night Out At Topless Club

A Bangladeshi diplomat to the United Nations has been recalled after her husband tried to sue a topless club in New York over charges he amassed on his credit card, a press report says.

Diplomat Mina Tasneem's husband Tauhidul Chaudhury reportedly spent a night out at the upmarket Scores club and then tried to sue the club over 130,000 dollars worth of charges he claimed were bogus, the New Age newspaper said.

Policy Endorses Torture For Terror Suspects

A group of lawyers in the U.S. administration argued in a paper last year that President George W. Bush has supreme authority over the questioning of terrorist suspects, and can legally order interrogators to torture or commit other crimes against them....

The lawyers who authored the paper include attorneys from both the defence and justice departments, and possibly other parts of the government.

For those of you joining us now, a summary why you shouldn't always act on your privileges:

I'm Too Old For ER, Says Axed Star

Alex Kingston, who has played surgeon Elizabeth Corday in the award-winning show for seven years, was told that her character is being written out at the end of the current series. The 41-year-old says the decision is further proof that Hollywood is obsessed with youth.

"I suddenly felt very old surrounded by these young 20-somethings," she complained in a Radio Times interview....

Ms Kingston lives in California with her second husband, Florian Haertel, and their three-year-old daughter...

Rumsfeld Fears U.S. Losing Long-Term Fight Against Terror

The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists -- whom he termed "zealots and despots" bent on destroying the global system of nation-states -- are turning out newly trained terrorists faster than the United States can capture or kill them.

"It's quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this," Rumsfeld said at an international security conference....

Later Saturday, in Bangladesh, Rumsfeld discussed that South Asian nation's possible interest in sending peacekeepers to Iraq after an interim government in Baghdad takes political control June 30.

Royal Funeral For Pickled Heart

[Paris, France] Louis XVII's short life was the stuff of nightmares. He lost his parents to the guillotine.

He was locked in Paris' Temple prison for three years -- for part of that time, in solitary confinement in a darkened cell, without anyone to wash him or clean up after him, said historian Philippe Delorme.

The boy finally died of tuberculosis in 1795, his body reportedly ravaged by tumors and scabies.

The child's corpse was dumped in a common grave -- but first, a doctor secretly carved out his heart in keeping with a tradition of preserving royal hearts separate from their bodies.

...when scientists at two European universities compared DNA from the heart of the dead boy to DNA from hair trimmed from Marie-Antoinette during her childhood in Austria, the link was confirmed.

Tests Reveal Mouse-In-Soup Hoax; Pair Charged

[Newport News, VA] [Spokeswoman Julie] Davis said Cracker Barrel had undertaken an in-depth investigation as soon as the Pattersons said they found the mouse.

But when the laboratory analysis of the small, black mouse came back, Davis said, it was clear that something was amiss. "It was a very methodical investigation, and we knew that something was very wrong," she said.

For one thing, she said, the autopsy showed that the mouse had not drowned, and was not cooked. The mouse did not have any soup in its internal system. The mouse, Davis said, died of a skull fracture.

Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code

American officials said that about six weeks ago, Mr. Chalabi told the Baghdad station chief of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security that the United States was reading the communications traffic of the Iranian spy service, one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East.

According to American officials, the Iranian official in Baghdad, possibly not believing Mr. Chalabi's account, sent a cable to Tehran detailing his conversation with Mr. Chalabi, using the broken code. That encrypted cable, intercepted and read by the United States, tipped off American officials to the fact that Mr. Chalabi had betrayed the code-breaking operation, the American officials said.

American officials reported that in the cable to Tehran, the Iranian official recounted how Mr. Chalabi had said that one of "them" -- a reference to an American -- had revealed the code-breaking operation, the officials said. The Iranian reported that Mr. Chalabi said the American had been drunk.

Audrey Hepburn 'Most Beautiful Woman Of All Time'

Film legend Audrey Hepburn was yesterday named the most naturally beautiful woman of all time by a panel of experts....

Hepburn was joined in the top five by current US film star Liv Tyler, Blanchett, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie and the '50s icon turned princess Grace Kelly.