A Taiwanese woman quarantined for SARS at a Taipei hospital tries to throw herself out of a window but is pulled back inside on April 27, 2003. A sign next to her says 'We are the relatives of patients, we have been quarantined'. The woman is the second person in the SARS-infected hospital to attempt suicide after the building was sealed off. A 48-year-old man hung himself on Saturday after being told his family may have Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). (Reuters) |
Dr. Nina Simone performs at Carnegie Hall during the Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert in New York, on April 13, 2002. She is seen being escorted by Sting (L) and James Taylor. The Jazz and soul singer, famed for her civil rights songs and interpretations of gospel, ballads and George Gershwin, died on April 21, 2003 at her home in the south of France, her manager said. She was 70 years old. Simone, a North Carolina native who had been living in France off and on for the past eight years, had been ill for some time. REUTERS/Chip East |
Iraqi people carry Saleh Khudhir al-Jumaili, one of two people killed during a protest in Falluja, for burial in a Falluja cemetery 50 kms (30 miles) west of Baghdad, April 30, 2003. Two men were killed when U.S. troops fired on the protesters, two days after at least 13 Iraqis were shot dead in another demonstration against the U.S. presence in the town. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich |
Iraqi mourners in a funeral procession transport a dead man to the cemetary in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2003 after American soldiers opened fire on a crowd of protesters killing him. U.S. troops opened fire on anti-American demonstrators for the second time this week as Iraqis marched Wednesday to protest the previous shooting. The mayor said two people were killed, and a hospital administrator said 18 were wounded. (AP Photo/Ali Haider) |
Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil. |
The Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas displays the electric chair nicknamed "Old Sparky," which operated from 1924 to 1964(AFP/File/Paul Buck) |
U.S. Army soldiers carry the coffin of U.S. Army Spc. Gil Mercado Roman in Isabela, Puerto Rico on Wednesday, April 23, 2003. Mercado Roman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Iraq. (AP Photo/ Tomas van Houtryve) |
A crowd of Iraqi protesters gather in front of a U.S. military barbed wire checkpoint outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad Monday April 28, 2003 to call for greater representation in the formation of a new Iraqi government. More than 200 delegates from inside and outside Iraq, stressing a theme of unity in a divided land, met Monday behind a wall of U.S. Army tanks guarding Saddam Hussein's showcase convention hall to search for agreement on a new government to replace the ousted dictator. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) |
Members of the Marine Corp carry the casket of United States Marine Pvt. Jonathan Lee Gifford Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Maranatha Assembly of God in Decatur, Ill. Gifford, 30, was in the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. Gifford was killed in action in Southern Iraq in March. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) |
A young boy sits with protesters as they plead with U.S. Marines during a standoff, Wednesday, April 23, 2003, in Kut, 160 kms. (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Dozens of protesters blocked U.S. Marines trying to cross the main bridge over the Tigris River Wednesday in a more than four-hour standoff sparked by the detentions of two local men by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) AP - Apr 23 12:12 PM |
A young boy holds a placard denouncing the U.S.-led war in Iraq during a protest march in Bombay, April 23, 2003. Around 200 activists of the group called People Against War took part in the march, condemning the killing of Iraqi civillians and the alleged bombing of market places and residential buildings. REUTERS/Roy Madhur |
Lori Bohr, left, stands with her father-in-law Edward Bohr, center, following funeral services for her husband Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeffrey Bohr, Wednesday, April 23, 2003, in Ossian, Iowa. Bohr died April 10 from two gunshot wounds suffered in a seven-hour battle with pro-Saddam Hussein forces at the Imam Mosque northwest of Baghdad's city center. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) |
Kudeir, a 30 year-old Iraqi, carries his badly burned 9-month-old son Amir Yas to safety in the Zaafaraniya neighborhood in the outskirts of Baghdad, April 26, 2003. Up to 40 Iraqi civilians were killed and many badly hurt in a series of explosions near Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi medic said after an arms dump blew up on the outskirts of the capital. Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters |
The Dixie Chicks Emily Robison, left, Natalie Maines, center, and Martie Maguire, are featured in this undated handout of the cover of the May 2, 2003, issue of Entertainment Weekly. (AP Photo/Entertainment Weekly, HO) |
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