Tomato Fight Colors Bunyol in La Tomatina Festival
About 20 000 people pelted each other with overripe tomatoes in Bunyol Spain turning the main square into a red pool during La Tomatina. Four 25 tonne truckloads of tomatoes were used in the hour long frenzy as festival spokeswoman Minerva Gonzalez notes. The town of 10 000 honors its patron saint San Luis annually since the Middle Ages and added the tomato throwing in the mid 1950s.
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Madrid
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San Luis
Gonzalez
First Day Joy At St Francis Xavier School
Riley Moskal starts Grade 1 at St Francis Xavier School amid a busy morning of registration, orientation, and reunions with friends. His mother Darlene recalls summer frogs at Saskatchewan farm while principal Dan MacDonald welcomes 210 students. Nearby, Kaitlyn Varga battles nerves before joining classmates from ECS and friends, as teachers begin the routine day.
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Saskatchewan
Peter
Darlene Sai
Riley
Dan MacDonald
St. Francis
Darlene
MacDonald
Kaitlyn Varga
Diane
Kaitlyn
ECS
Christopher
Dustin
Riley Moskal
Jordan Scott
St. Francis Xavier
Peter Mah
NATO probes damage from Bosnian airstrikes pause
NATO paused to assess damage caused by Wednesday airstrikes on Bosnian Serb positions near Pale. Adm Leighton Smith said efforts focus on rescuing two missing French pilots after their plane was shot down. Four Sarajevo deaths were reported as fog delayed action and Canada announced tolls and troop withdrawals from Croatia.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
NATO
Bosnica
Pale
Pateacks
Leighton Smith
Naples
Zagreb
Yasushi Akashi
Canada
David Collenette
Toronto
Andre Ouellet
Ottawa
Collenette
Croatia
Bosnia
Breakthroughs mark B C native standoff near Gustafsen Lake
Breakthrough developments clear the way for access by Ottawa lawyer Bruce Clark to the Gustafsen Lake camp. The two brothers left the site and a deal allowing native ceremonies at the occupied land prompts cautious optimism from RCMP, Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh, Chief Agnes Snow, and landowners.
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B.C
Ottawa
Bruce
Clark
RCMP
Peter Montague
Gustafsen Lake
Ujjal Dosanjh
Lyle James
James Cattle Co
Agnes Snow
Canoe Creek
Dosandj
Snow
British Columbia
Montague
Medicine Hat News to adopt compact weekly format Friday
The Medicine Hat News will switch to a compact two-tier page design on Friday, trimming 1.5 inches from the height while preserving depth. The change follows reader feedback for easier handling and aims to curb rising newsprint costs with a 620000 capital investment for better color photos and a five to ten column layout across 17 daily papers including the Toronto Star and Regina Leader-Post.
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Southam
Toronto Star
Regina Leader-Post
Saskatoon Star Phoenix
Judge addresses Bernardo jury as deliberations near
In Toronto the judge at Paul Bernardo's murder trial instructs jurors on their duties as they near the end of a three month trial. Eight men and four women must decide if Bernardo caused the deaths of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French and whether the killings were intentional. The court has shown graphic videotapes of the teens' final hours.
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Toronto
Paul Bernardo
Leslie Mahaffy
Kristen French
Patrick LeSage
LeSage
Bernardo
Mahaffy
French
Karla Homolka
Ray Houlahan
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Ann Landers
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