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NEW YORK (AP) _ The daughter of renowned British journalist Alistair Cooke says she's haunted by the gruesome news that her father's body was illegally sold by a funeral home to a tissue-processing plant. Susan Cooke Kittredge, in an op-ed piece published in Sunday's New York Times, recalled her reaction when a detective from the Brooklyn district attorney's office telephoned her shortly before...

YAOUNDE -- Therese Bella Mbida, Cameroon's first woman journalist as well as a filmmaker and pilot, has died in a Yaounde hospital at the age of 73, her family said on Thursday. Mbida, better known as Sita Bella, "died on Monday in the greatest destitution, abandoned and alone, after being thrown out of the flat she lived in the Messa district", one of her nephews said. After being taken to an old...

Srinagar, Feb 11: Yusuf Jameel, veteran Kashmiri journalist has won the best journalist of the South Asian region award for his outstanding reporting from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir during a visit across the Line of Control last year. He was among a dozen journalists from Jammu and Kashmir who joined the return visit to Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir of the South Asian journalists and during...

Muktsar: Close on the heels of self-immolation by a vendor in Patiala, a journalist attempted to commit suicide during the Republic Day parade in Muktsar district town of Punjab today. Kishan Midda, a local correspondent of a Hindi daily, was, however, overpowered by the policemen before he could set himself afire at the Government College stadium where the district-level Republic Day function was...

BATON ROUGE (AP) – One recent balmy morning, Wilbert Rideau wandered around his backyard, dressed in shorts and sandals. He acknowledged the joy he felt was greater than others might experience, but for him it was one more milestone on a very long road. "It doesn't sound like a big thing to you," Rideau said. "But I spent 44 years in a place where they don't allow you to walk around in sandals and...

The News of the World's Mazher Mahmood is an undercover reporter who specialises in exposing the behind-the-scenes activities of high-profile celebrities. Mahmood's latest sting was to trick England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson into making several embarrassing revelations about his plans for the future. The reporter is known as "the fake Sheik" because many of his stings involve posing as an Arab...

David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington. Rosenbaum, 63, died at 7:10 p.m. at Howard University Hospital, where he was treated for a head injury suffered during the attack on Gramercy Street NW, said Philip Taubman, chief of the Times's...

Lloyd Peterson always wanted to be a journalist. At 15, he purchased a small printing press and began cranking out his own newspaper – The Elmora Globe in his boyhood home of Elizabeth, N.J. He delivered the 41/2- by 5-inch newspaper to his neighbors' mailboxes. The cost of local news in 1930: one penny. "I'd write about who's going to college or how they might pave North Avenue," said Peterson...

The Australian ruling elite has spent much of the holiday season eulogising the late Kerry Packer, who died December 26. Packer was Australia’s wealthiest individual, with a personal fortune estimated at $7 billion (US$5.1 billion) at the time of his death. His Publishing & Broadcasting Limited company has a range of interests spread across television, magazines, and casinos and gambling. Prime...

WASHINGTON (AP) A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the...