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RAMADI, Iraq - They closed down Hissam Hamed's Internet
cafe, told history professor Abid Mohammed how to pray and killed 16-year-old
Ammar Alwani because he scoffed at their religious edicts.
PARIS - France's presidential election today is a
ground-breaker - a choice between an immigrant's son and an army officer's
daughter, each offering a radically different vision of how to put a dispirited
nation back on track.
BAGHDAD - Al-Qaida in Iraq released a recording yesterday
purportedly of its leader, who had been reported killed in recent fighting,
branding the country's Sunni vice president a "criminal" for participating in
the government.
BUY MY WIFE ... PLEASE. The Brazilian government ordered an
Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a man offered to
sell his wife for about $50. The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women
announced it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove
the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of "human
organs, people, blood, bones or skin." It was posted by a man who gave his name
as Breno. He described his wife physically and listed her qualities as a
homemaker and companion. He reportedly said she was 35 and "worth her weight in
gold."
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - A Kenya Airways jet that took off
during a storm crashed early yesterday with 114 on board after sending out a
distress signal over remote southern Cameroon, officials said.
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