And the Oscar goes to... the rest of the world
Oscar wrapped itself in international colors on Sunday handing five awards, including best picture, to British funded Gladiator, four honors to a Taiwanese film with English subtitles and four more to a US film with Spanish subtitles.



58 killed in Kenyan school fire
Fifty-eight teenaged boys were burned to death early on Monday when Kenya’s deadliest fire in recent times engulfed their boarding school dormitory in what police said was a suspected case of arson.



Train carrying German nuke waste rumbles across France
A high-security freight train shipping nuclear waste back to Germany rumbled across northern France almost unnoticed on Monday, in contrast to the protests expected once it crosses the border before midnight.



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