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Actor held after damage to taxi
LONDON -- Police here arrested Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson after he allegedly damaged a local taxi and then fled in the early hours of yesterday morning, the Sun newspaper reported. Harrelson, 40, was reported to have smashed a door lock and ...

Bush warns of 'turf war' over new dept
WASHINGTON ­ President George W Bush yesterday warned Congress against sparking a "turf battle" over his plan to create a Department of Homeland Security, and said he was sending top adviser Tom Ridge to promote the terrorist-fighting plan wi...

Fishermen presumed dead
MAPUTO, Mozambique ­ Mozambican rescue teams gave up hope yesterday of saving any of the 18 people still missing from a South Korean fishing boat that sank off the coast five days ago. Six members of the crew of the Beira-5, which sank off t...

French women do more chores
PARIS -- France's shorter, 35-hour work week has made women guilty and pushed them to do more housework rather than leisure activities, according to a study by a psychologist, Danielle Rapoport. The reduced period for work, brought in two years a...

R&B star in child porn probe
CHICAGO ­ The Grammy winner R Kelly, fresh out of a Florida jail, was booked by police here yesterday on child pornography charges stemming from a videotape that authorities say shows him having sex with an underage girl. "I'm just looking f...

STRIKING A POSE
A visitor to the documenta II, in Kassel, Germany, walks through a room housing an installation of the British artist Yinka Shonibare. The famous art show, documenta, takes place from June 8 to September 15 and more than 100 artists will exhibit ...

Storms in Europe kill four
MUNICH, Germany -- Four people were found dead yesterday after wild storms lashed parts of Germany, Switzerland and France, causing flash flooding, mudslides, road blockages and power cuts. Officials said the situation was chaotic. In a village ...

Firemen rescue tadpoles
HAADEMEESTE, Estonia, -- Estonian firemen, often heralded for their bravery, are now winning accolades for a less conventional sort of rescue operation: saving toads. Firetrucks in the southwest part of this Baltic Sea coastal nation, which is su...

WORLD WATCH
First corvette is SAS Amatola PRETORIA -- The first of the four corvettes ordered by the South African Navy has been named the SAS Amatola. The ship was named in a Hamburg dockyard in northern Germany yesterday. South Africa's first lady, Zane...