The boulders missed her and cracked a canal under the floor of the well. Philippe Drouet, one of the prosecutors, said the results of the tests could be known by Friday.. Woman in well cheats death

A 55-year-old Iranian woman who was thrown into a dry well by her relatives after a dispute over inheritance survived in the well for 22 days. Villagers support DNA test

Officials expressed satisfaction yesterday after all but one young French male in the village of Pleine-Fougeres gave DNA samples to help find the killer of Caroline Dickinson. During three days of testing, 169 of 170 males in the village voluntarily gave a sample of saliva to help find out if one of them killed Caroline, 13, on 18 July, 1996. The weekly youth communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde said that by late on Saturday, the first day the remains were on display, some 72,000 people had filed past.

The caskets containing the remains of Guevara and six former comrades-in-arms will be on display until tonight at the Jose Marti memorial in Havana’s Revolution Square.. The Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya accused the Clinton administration of attacking Muslims, and warned that the group will retaliate, the Al-Sharq Al-Awsatt said quoting the group’s statement.. Cubans pay tribute to Che

More than 70,000 Cubans have paid their last respects to Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Havana, and thousands more are expected to file past a small wooden casket containing the remains of the leftist guerrilla killed 30 years ago. Islamists threaten US citizens

Egypt’s most feared Muslim militant group has threatened to attack Americans in the Arab world, after Washington made it illegal for US residents to support the organization, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Mossad under scrutiny

Investigators launched a government inquiry at a secret location yesterday into Israel’s bungled attempt to kill a leader of the Islamic militant Hamas group in Jordan, an Israeli spokesman said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, having ordered Mossad secret agents to assassinate Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal last month, appointed a three-man “clarification committee” last week to investigate the affair.
A spokesman, Moshe Fogel, said the committee was taking testimony at an undisclosed security installation He declined to elaborate.. The switch from heroin to crack cocaine as the most prevalent street drug is also offered as a partial explanation, as addicts find burglary a slower and less reliable means of raising cash than robbery. Criminologists are cited as judging tougher policing, longer prison sentences and an increase in the number of burglar alarms to be contributing factors, but not the whole explanation – Mary Dejevsky, Washington. Despite a recent drop, it has risen overall since 1980 by 6 per cent. The US has up to 18 times more murders than any other industrial democracy.

And while Londoners are 60 per cent more likely to be burgled than New Yorkers, they are five times less likely to be robbed and ten times less likely to be murdered.A variety of explanations is offered for these trends, from the declining number of teenage males in the population as a whole, to the dying out of the professional burglar’s “art”. Incidence of property crime for the United States as a whole is so far down since 1980 – led by a 50 per cent fall in the burglary rate – that the US is now comparable with the Netherlands, Canada or Australia in its overall crime rate.
However, the precipitate fall in burglary is not matched by a similar fall in violent crime. But the imposition of a blanket state policy on all could be suicidal.. In New York they’ll kill you, but at least the video’s safe

New York now has proportionately fewer burglaries than London, and the rate in Los Angeles has fallen behind that of Sydney, according to figures reported by the New York Times yesterday.