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One of the first questions obviously asked when the Daily Mirror published what it called "vile" pictures of British troops beating and tormenting Iraqi prisoners was whether they could be a hoax.
Four Moscow doctors have been arrested for plotting to murder a patient so that they could use his organs for transplantation in an illegal trade which Russians fear is rife but which is seldom brought to court.
Perhaps the most riveting story Jack Kelley wrote for USA TODAY involved a suicide bombing in Jerusalem on Aug. 9, 2001 — a bombing Kelley says he witnessed.
The gag e-mail that Major General George W. Keefe forwarded to friends last week lampooned the upcoming Democratic National Convention and US Senator Edward M. Kennedy. But by yesterday, the laughter had ended, and Keefe was issuing a statement of regret.
It didn't make it across the Atlantic, but 7-year-old Dylan Goodman got a long-distance answer to a message put in a bottle that was thrown in the ocean.