An attack by a pro-government mob on a bus carrying an American Peace Corps worker has prompted the US agency to temporarily withdraw from a violent neighborhood near the capital. "The Peace Corps has pulled out its contingent of about a dozen volunteers from the area. We expect to go back when the situation calms down" said Payne Huffman, 33, of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Huffman survived an attack last weekend by rock-throwing supporters of President Evo Morales, who were attempting to block anti-government protesters from reaching the capital, Santa Cruz. "We lay for almost 2 hours between the seats as rocks crashed through the windows & pelted the roof above us," said Mr. Huffman, who was traveling by bus with his girlfriend, Mariela Ruiz, & her 2-year-old daughter when the assault took place in the town of San Julian. Supporters of Mr. Morales' Movement toward Socialism party were attempting to cut off a road leading to Santa Cruz, to block anti-government protesters from reaching a rally...
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A solution to one of the most difficult problems in mathematics was the most important advance of 2006, according to the prestigious journal Science. Grigory Perelman's proof of the century-old Poincare Conjecture has caused a sensation, and not just because of the brilliance of the work. In August, the Russian became the first person to turn down a Fields Medal, the highest honour in mathematics. He also seems likely to turn down a $1m prize offered by a US maths institute. Dr Perelman is said to despise self-promotion and describes himself as isolated from the rest of the mathematical community. But his work has set the field alight with excitement - and controversy. Terence Tao, professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, called Perelman's result "the best piece of mathematics we have seen in the last 10 years". ...
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| Ahmadinejad: Bush 'Most Hated' In World Iranian President Keeps Up Tirades Against West Despite Losses In Local Elections |
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called President Bush "the most hated person" in the world on Thursday, keeping up his tirades against the West despite elections that showed Iranians want him to focus on the country's domestic problems. In final results announced Thursday from local elections last week, moderate conservatives opposed to Ahmadinejad won a majority of seats. They were followed by reformists, making a comeback after being driven out of local councils, parliament and the presidency over the past five years. In the capital Tehran, where Ahmadinejad was mayor before becoming president 16 months ago, his allies grabbed only three of the 15 council seats, while moderate conservatives won seven. Reformists won four, and an independent one. Though the Dec. 15 elections were local, they were the first time the public has weighed in on Ahmadinejad's stormy presidency...
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| Five U.S. Troops Killed In Iraq Death Toll Nears 3,000 As Gates Prepares To Report To President Bush |
Five more American troops have died from combat wounds in western Iraq and Baghdad, the military said Friday, pushing the U.S. death toll since the war began closer to 3,000. In December, 76 American troops have been killed; at the current rate, the number of U.S. combat deaths this month could meet or exceed the previous monthly record for 2006. At least 2,964 American troops have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. One U.S. soldier died and another was wounded Friday when their patrol came under fire, the military said in a statement. On Thursday, three Marines and one U.S. sailor died from wounds sustained in combat in western Anbar province, the military said. ...
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| Rebels blamed for Beslan deaths |
Russian investigators say the mass hostage-taking in Beslan, which led to hundreds of deaths, was carefully planned by Chechen rebel leaders. The Beslan school siege in September 2004 killed at least 331 people, many of them children. The Russian parliamentary commission said the pro-Chechen gunmen who seized the school included a bodyguard of the late Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. The local North Ossetian police were also blamed for security shortcomings. The commission chairman, Alexander Torshin, reported that not a single armed policeman was on duty outside the school on the day the gunmen assaulted it. Disputed evidence The commission concluded that 32 militants took part in the raid and that they set off the first explosion inside the school. ...
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| British Woman With Two Wombs Gives Birth to Three Girls, in Possibly First Case of Its Kind |
A woman with two wombs has given birth to triplets, in what is believed to the first case of its kind, a hospital official said Friday. Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to three girls in September, said Richard Dottle, a spokesman for Southmead Hospital in Bristol where the babies were born. The children spent nine weeks in the hospital. The girls identical twins delivered from one womb and a single baby from the other were delivered by Caesarean section seven weeks early, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. Kersey and her partner Mick Faulkner said they were "over the moon" at how healthy and happy the girls were. "They are three lovely and incredible children, all with very different personalities," the BBC quoted Kersey as saying. ...
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