Kasparov Wins Siemens Giants Chess Tourney
World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov in a decisive Friday game to secure the Siemens Giants title, with a time trouble costed pawn on move 24 setting up a winning sequence. He then drew with Vladimir Kramnik to clinch the event, followed by a draw with Viswanathan Anand.
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Vatican adds fourteen saints including Giuseppina Bakhita
Fourteen new saints join the Vatican roster and include Giuseppina Bakhita, a former slave from Sudan captured in 1875 at age six. She was bought by an Italian consul in Khartoum and later gifted to a Venetian family. Pope John Paul II has canonized 284 people in his 20 year papacy.
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Deadly French gondola crash spurs probe in Alps
Investigators comb the wreckage of a private cable car in the Hautes Alpes near Saint-Etienne en Devoluy after a 262 foot plunge killed 20 workers en route to the Pic de Bure space observatory. Prosecutors open a judicial probe while officials inspect the two intact cables for wear.
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Kurds urge cap on violence in Europe
Kurdish rebel spokeswoman Mizgin Sen said attacks in Europe should stop while violence in Turkey may continue. She linked the escalation to Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence as Turkish authorities reported five dead and eight wounded across Turkey. Police arrested two suspected rebels in Istanbul as further attacks occurred in Elazig and Van.
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