Protests Erupt in Pakistan, With One slain and 7 wounded in west 

AMERICA STRIKES BACK / Worldwide Reverberations  Reuters   QUETTA, Pakistan the Pakistani U.S. demonstrators who brandished pictures of Osama bin Laden and burned cars and a United Nations office in protests U.S. and British military strikes in Afghanistan. One person was killed.   Seven others were wounded in gun battles in the western city of Quetta as…

A Nobel for Cancer Researchers – Prize Honors Discoveries on What Can Go Wrong in Cell Division 

Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches  STOCKHOLM – Three researchers whose discoveries of molecular elements that control cell division have opened dramatic new possibilities for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.  The three Leland Hartwell of the United States and Tim Hunt and…

Ukraine Still Denying Missile Downed Airliner Angry Relatives Visit Black Sea Crash Site 

Angry Relatives Visit Black Sea Crash Site  Reuters   KIEV – Ukraine’s military on Monday clung to its denial that a rogue missile blew up a Russian airliner last Thursday, killing 78, as angry and grieving relatives visited the Black Sea crash site.   But President Leonid Kuchma, facing pressure from Russia to disclose more about…