Forbes Magazine has released its 2003 ranking of the world’s wealthiest people which reveals that Yasir Arafat is worth at least $300,000,000. This puts the wealth of the president of the Palestinian Authority above Cuba’s Fidel Castro but well behind Queen Elizabeth.
An inquiry has been ordered at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth (Britain) into the death of a female patient whose heart surgery was interrupted when the operating table on which she was lying began to collapse. The surgeon called for help to steady the table while he completed the surgery but the 70-year-old woman died three days later.
A protester in Atlanta, Georgia, who hoped to display her support of Saddam Hussein, feels her free speech was suppressed by her neighbors’ free speech opposing her.
Former celebrity George Michael, who has disappeared from view since his 1998 arrest for indency in a public toilet, says other pop acts aren’t up to carrying off a peace protest song.
Liberal Canadian MP Carolyn Parrish has apologized for saying about Americans: “I hate those bastards” while speaking to reporters about Canada’s diplomatic initiative on Iraq. A reporter who heard Parrish make the comment says the MP then laughed as she was walking away.
A New Jersey woman suffered second- and third-degree burns Monday from a fire which started when she tried to open a can of spray-paint with an electric can-opener. The woman’s husband and children, who were also in the apartment, were unhurt.
Americans held hostage in Iraq before the Gulf War are warning pro-Saddam activists in Baghdad that they should get out. One former hostage who was used as a human shield called the activists “incredibly naive.” The wife of another man who was forced to be a human shield labeled the activists as “traitors.”
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