London -- Dread mounted that the peaceful east coast of England had given birth to a new "Ripper" as police hunted Tuesday for the killer of five women whose bodies were discovered in the past two weeks.

Some 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur since the rebels took up arms against the central government in 2003, while another 2 million have been driven out of their homes.

The conflict in Sudan's Darfur region has spread into neighboring Chad and the Central African Republic and is now in "free fall," with the prospect of six million people in a hopeless situation without food or protection

The building is a solemn monument to the fallen, but also an obvious target, a test of our will and ingenuity to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself.

Nicaraguan police have been raiding bars and stores in search of adulterated alcohol that is so far believed to have killed 22 people.

ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.

A FILM crew secretly returned to the scene of Steve Irwin's death a day after the tragedy to complete the documentary he had been making, the Crocodile Hunter's manager John Stainton said today.

WASHINGTON -- There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush's justification for invading Iraq.