MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- Melissa and Jackson Brandts knew right away that the photo from their recent trip to Canada was a good one. Melissa and Jackson Brandts were taking a photo of themselves when the squirrel popped up. However, it wasn't until the world -- and National Geographic -- took notice that they realized exactly how good. Now, after submitting it to the magazine's online "Your Shot" contest, the Minnesota couple's photo is set to grace the pages of the magazine's November issue. It's appeared on the Web sites of news outlets around the world, and the squirrel -- now dubbed "Crasher Squirrel" -- even has its own Wikipedia entry of the same moniker. Melissa Brandts and her husband Jackson were hiking in Banff National Park the last week in May when they decided to set up their camera and use their wireless remote shutter for a few shots of the two of them. They were getting situated on the rocky shore near Lake Minnewanka when the now-iconic critter stopped by for a visit. "The little squirrel had been running around while we were getting the shot set up," Melissa Brandts said in a phone interview Tuesday. "I was joking with my husband that I hoped he was friendly because he was getting awful close and kind of scampering around our feet and stuff." Friendly? You might say so. It was also a bit timid and perhaps even indecisive because it soon scurried away and then, just as quickly, rushed back again. "Photogenic" might also be a good word to describe it. "All of a sudden he popped back up because he heard the shutter releasing, the clicking of the camera. The only thing we can figure is that he thought it was going to give him food or something," Brandts said. "He popped right up and looked right into the camera, and we were laughing so hard because we were like 'get it, get it!' and we were trying to get the remote to fire. So we got a couple of pictures -- took a couple of pictures with him there, and then he ducked down and proceeded to run away." The resulting image exceeded all expectations. "We didn't realize how good it was until we got back to the hotel that night and downloaded it to my husband's computer, and when we could see it on the full screen we were like, 'Whoa, are you serious?'" "We had no idea it was going to turn out exactly like it did with him being in perfect focus, us being out of focus, and then us just laughing in the background. We weren't sure if he'd be standing like in front of one of us or something like that." An international phenomenon Brandts said she and her husband showed the photo to their friends and family and were subsequently incessantly prodded to "do something" with it. For months the two weren't sure what that something could be. That changed, however, when the latest issue of National Geographic arrived in the mail. "I saw the 'Your Shot' contest, which of course I knew existed, but I had never thought of entering one of my own pictures into it," Brandts said. "I thought, 'This is what I'm going to do!'" Brandts said she submitted it on August 5 and by August 13 it was NationalGeographic.com's photo of the day. "Things just kind of spun out of control from there." The photo was soon published in the pages of two national Canadian newspapers, and Brandts received calls from a friend in South Korea who'd seen it on a local South Korean news Web site. The couple has since appeared on NBC's "Today" show as well as the Twin Cities' local affiliate KARE. And now that it's been selected for publication in the November issue of National Geographic, the attention hasn't subsided. As of this writing, Brandts has received Facebook messages from random fans in

Question:
What did the couple set up?
What magazine will the photo be in?
What popped up in front of camera?
What animal pops up in the camera?
Where did the photo appear?

Answer: camera

Answer: National Geographic

Answer: squirrel

Answer: squirrel

Answer: It's appeared on the Web sites of news outlets around the world,

Summary:
Couple had set up camera to take their photo with mountains as backdrop .
Squirrel pops up in front of camera, is snapped .
Photo appears all over the Web, will be in National Geographic .
On question of authenticity: "You can't make this stuff up," woman says .


MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- President Bush surveyed this week's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and pledged the government would "eliminate roadblocks" and "cut through paperwork" to get it rebuilt.

"I bring prayers from the American people to those who have suffered loss of life as a result of the collapse of the 35W bridge in the Twin Cities. I bring prayers to those who wonder whether they'll ever see a loved one again," Bush said on his visit.

"I have met with the chief of police and the sheriff and rescue workers -- people who represent men and women working as hard as they possibly can to save life and to find life -- to go under these murky waters to find the facts. And it's going to take awhile."

Shortly after Bush left the site, a diver bobbed in the water and communicated with an attending boat with hand signals.

"I have been impressed not only by their determination but by their compassion," the president said.  Watch Bush tour the disaster site Â»

"We want to get this bridge rebuilt as quick as possible. We understand that this is a main artery," Bush said. "People depend on this bridge, on this highway."

Bush was accompanied by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who pledged that she would do what she could to meet the needs of the city.

On Friday, the chief federal investigator said the south end of the bridge "behaved differently" from the rest of the structure during its catastrophic collapse.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark Rosenker said, based on a video of the collapse and where the bridge debris lies, the southern end shifted 50 feet to the east.

"And when we compare that to what we've seen in the rest of the bridge, the rest of the bridge appears to have collapsed in place," Rosenker told reporters.

Rosenker cautioned that investigators' interest in the southern end does not mean they have found the cause of the bridge collapse.

"What we have is a step forward," he said.

"We believe that as the bridge began to fall, as it began to collapse, it shifted," Rosenker said. "I am not saying that the 50-foot shift created the fall. That is not what we believe. What we believe is whatever created the failure, we also saw a 50-foot shift in the southern end of the structure."

Rosenker would not offer any theories on what caused the collapse, saying that would come after the 19 investigators have completed their analysis.  See which states have most troubled bridges Â»

The 1,907-foot bridge came down Wednesday in a cloud of dust and river water during the evening rush hour.

Divers searched the river throughout Friday, locating 12 submerged or partially submerged vehicles, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said. While no bodies were found, two of the vehicles were so badly crushed that divers could not check inside. Five people were confirmed to have died in the collapse.     View photos from the disaster Â»

"I'm hopeful that the death toll will remain low, but I can't be absolutely certain," Stanek said. "I can only pray."

The Hennepin County medical examiner's office Friday identified a fifth victim as Paul Eickstadt, 51, of Mounds View, Minnesota, who was the driver of the tractor-trailer that was ablaze in the immediate aftermath of the collapse. The other four victims were previously identified. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Susan Roesgen contributed to this report.

Question: What did the transportation secretary promise?

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Question: How many feet did part of the bridge shift?

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Question: What did Federal investigators note about the bridge?

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Question: How far did the bridge shift?

Question: Who pledged to get the bridge rebuilt?

Answer: she would do

Answer: "behaved differently" from the rest of the structure during its catastrophic collapse.

Answer: President Bush

Answer: 50

Answer: Transportation Secretary Mary Peters,

Answer: chief of police and the sheriff and rescue workers

Answer: pledged the government would "eliminate roadblocks" and "cut through paperwork" to get it rebuilt.

Answer: pledged the government would "eliminate roadblocks" and "cut through paperwork"

Answer: President Bush

Answer: 50-foot

Answer: President Bush

Summary:
NEW: President pledges to get bridge rebuilt "as quick as possible"
NEW: Transportation secretary promises help for city's transit needs .
Bush praises people who disregarded danger to help victims .
Federal investigator notes 50-foot shift of part of bridge .


MODESTO, California (CNN)  -- Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy are the youngest. Almost 2 million children nationwide have had or will have their lives disrupted by home foreclosures, according to one study.

There are more empty desks in Suzell Tougas's fourth grade classroom after 10 students have stopped coming.

These are the children whose families have had to move, sometimes more than once. The youngsters are pulled out of school, often leaving their friends behind without even saying goodbye.

Nine-year-old Kenia, who is in the fourth grade at Fairview Elementary School in Modesto, California, said that is what happened to her. She is new to the school, having moved to the area just a few months ago. She said it is really hard and she misses her friends.

Her classmate Bethany said her best friend since kindergarten just left without saying goodbye.

Heather Sharp, the principal at Fairview, said her school has been the one most affected by the bad economy in the Modesto City School system.

"We have, over the last couple of months, 50 students coming new to the school and 50 students leaving," Sharp said.

It was so bad that the school conducted a door-to-door search for missing students, she said.

"We had our community aide going out to houses. And they were boarded up, windows boarded, yard brown. She had to go to neighbors to find out where the kids were."

In terms of raw numbers, California had the most foreclosures of any state from 2007 through January 2009. More than 57,000 homes entered foreclosure. Many of those were in Stanislaus County, where home prices have declined 65 percent since December 2005, according to the Modesto Bee.

Fourth-grade teacher Suzell Tougas said she has lost 10 kids from her class so far this year and is braced to lose more. She usually has a room full of children with every desk occupied. Now, it "looks empty ... it's like a "ghost town".

She said constant moving is hard on kids.

"Just having to start over and start over is really hard on a child," Tougas said. "It takes six weeks for a child to adjust ... at least."

While children are in that period of adjustment, she said, they aren't learning and their studies suffer.

"The biggest issue is that when [children have to move] when there are other stressors going on, we know it puts these kids at greater risk for being behind in their academics," said Pat Popp, a past president of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

That is borne out in a recent study by a nonpartisan group in Washington called First Focus. It said that children who move twice in one year are only half as likely as others to be able to read proficiently, and may have a greater chance of being held back. It also found that  moving a lot reduces the student's chance of graduating from high school by half. Read the report here

The report, published in May, estimated that 1.95 million children will be affected by foreclosure over the next two years.

The number of homeless students is increasing dramatically. A study by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children reported that more than 450 school districts across the nation had an increase of at least 25 percent in the number of identified homeless students between the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 school years. Read the report here (pdf)

A student who moves "may hear the same information again that you learned in your previous classroom or miss information that has already been covered in your class but wasn't taught in your previous school," Popp said.

The fallout from the rash of foreclosures likely will have a long-term impact on education, especially in California. Schools get much of their funding from property tax revenues. Real estate values are spiraling downward and so is the revenue.

At Fairview Elementary, Principal Sharp worries about students like

Question: What life change is this article about?

Question: Where is Modesto?

Question: Which grade were the students in the reading in?

Question: What did the teacher say?

Question: What has happened to California?

Question: Children are what?

Question: What has hit California hard?

Question: What are children who move twice in a year less likely to do?

Question: California is hit hard by what?

Question: 4th graders in what city miss friends?

Answer: home foreclosures,

Answer: California

Answer: fourth

Answer: she has lost 10 kids from her class so far this year and is braced to lose more.

Answer: most foreclosures of any state

Answer: Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy

Answer: bad economy

Answer: read proficiently,

Answer: bad economy

Answer: Modesto, California,

Summary:
California hit hard by foreclosures, falling home values, families moving .
Modesto 4th graders say they miss friends, some of whom left without goodbyes .
Study: Children who move twice in year are half as likely to be able to read proficiently .
Children are resilient, teacher says, but have hard time focusing on their studies .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN)  -- A roadside bombing in Somalia's capital killed 21 women who were cleaning rubbish from a southern Mogadishu street on Sunday morning, a hospital official said. Mogadishu residents gather around victims of the bomb attack along the city's Maka Al Mukarama Road. The bomb blast wounded another 46 people, most of them Somali women who had gathered to clean Maka Al Mukarama Road in southern Mogadishu's Kilometer 4 district, according to Medina Hospital director Dr. Dahir Dhere. "It suddenly turned the area into a carnage, scattering body parts of the street cleaners into a large area," said witness Asha Ise Gedi. "There were pools of blood everywhere. I have never seen such mass killing." "They were innocent poor mothers or sisters," Gedi said. "Why did they deserve this?" It is unclear who is behind the attack. Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere, who was recently fired by the country's prime minister, blamed the Islamic Courts Union for waging the attack. But the head of the Islamist insurgent group, Abid Rahim Ise Adow, denied any involvement and blamed Somalia's government for orchestrating the attack. The victims were participating in a program that allows Somali women to work as street cleaners in exchange for food. The United Nations' World Food Program organized the program, which began last year and is administered by Mogadishu's regional authority. Mogadishu has been the site of violence in recent months between Ethiopian troops and Islamist fighters. Somalia's current transitional government is trying to maintain control of the capital, with the help of the better-equipped Ethiopian forces. On Saturday, two-thirds of the Somali government ministers announced their resignations, blaming Prime Minister Nur Hassan Nur Ade's "dictatorship," which they said included his firing of Mogadishu's mayor. Nur Ade said he suspects the mass resignations were aimed at weakening implementation of the peace agreement between Somalia's transitional government and the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia. He said he had no plans to resign. The peace agreement, signed June 9 in Djibouti, calls for a cease-fire between Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, an opposition group that includes members of the Islamist Court Union which overthrew the government in 2006. The ICU was ousted from power later that year by Ethiopian forces, with the support of Somalia's transitional government. If followed, the peace deal would pave the way for a withdrawal of Ethiopian troops -- a major sticking point for Islamist fighters who oppose their presence. The agreement calls on the alliance to dissociate itself from armed groups still fighting the government and for all sides to allow "unhindered humanitarian access and assistance" to all Somalis. A joint committee led by U.N. officials will monitor the agreement's implementation. Ethiopian forces became embroiled in an Islamist insurgency after the Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia in December 2006 to overthrow the ICU leaders and reinstall the transitional government. As guerrilla attacks mounted, efforts to replace the Ethiopians with an African Union-led peacekeeping mission faltered. Ethiopia's invasion had the blessing of Somalia's government and the United States, which accused the ICU of harboring fugitives from the al Qaeda terrorist movement. The conflict displaced hundreds of thousands of Somalis, further worsening a humanitarian crisis that dates back to the collapse of the country's last government in 1991. The situation has been exacerbated by drought, continual armed conflicts in central and southern Somalia, and high inflation on food and fuel prices. CNN's Alan Duke and journalists Mohamed Amin Adow and Abdi Nasir Mohamed contributed to this report.

Question: who blames islamists?

Question: who is the mayor?

Question: Who do islamist fighters blame for blast?

Question: who is the prime minister?

Question: Where is the site of violence between ethiopian troops and islamist fighters?

Question: Where do they clean streets?

Question: Who does the mayor blame for blast?

Question: who are part of un program?

Answer: Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere,

Answer: Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere,

Answer: Somalia's government

Answer: Nur Hassan Nur Ade's

Answer: Mogadishu

Answer: southern Mogadishu

Answer: Islamic Courts Union

Answer: Mogadishu's regional authority.

Summary:
NEW: Mayor blames Islamist fighters for blast; Islamist fighters blame government .
NEW: Women part of U.N. program in which they cleaned streets for food .
Mogadishu the site of violence between Ethiopian troops and Islamist fighters .
11 ministers resign Saturday, prime minister has refused to step down .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN)  -- Gunmen attacked a convoy Sunday in Somalia and took several hostages, including two foreign aid workers from the group Doctors Without Borders. Medecins San Frontieres workers, shown here, were abducted and released in March in Sudan. Local staff said a three-car convoy was traveling from Rabbure to Hudur in southwestern Somalia, escorted by local bodyguards, when gunmen seized the group. The district commissioner of Rabbure said the only people released were elders accompanying the staff, with the local and international staff kept as hostages. Doctors Without Borders, widely known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres, did not immediately release the identities or nationalities of the hostages. MSF is an international medical group that works in more than 60 countries. It says it helps people "threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe." Michel Peremans, international coordinator for operational communications for MSF Belgium, which operates in the region, confirmed that the organization had lost contact with two of its staff in Somalia. Rabbure is in the Bakole region, which is under the control of the group al-Shabaab, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Al-Shabaab was once the armed wing of the Islamic Courts Union, which took over most of southern Somalia in the second half of 2006. The United States says the group is affiliated with the al Qaeda terrorist network, and the U.S. backed an Ethiopian invasion that drove the ICU from power in 2006. The ICU's former leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, became president after Ethiopian troops withdrew in January. Al-Shabaab rejected the peace agreement that led to the Ethiopian withdrawal and is now fighting Sheikh Ahmed's government. Attacks on aid workers in the region are common, and U.N. staff came under attack this year. In Sudan, on the other side of Ethiopia, four workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres were abducted in March and released a few days later. All four -- an Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse, a French coordinator and a Sudanese guard -- worked for the Belgian section of the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres. Sudan last month ordered 13 major aid groups to leave the country after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity. CNN's Mohammed Amin and Carol Jordan contributed to this report.

Question: who has not released the names?

Question: Workers from which organization were abducted?

Question: who abducted the workers

Question: what is common in the region?

Question: Where did the gunmen seize the convoy?

Question: who seized convoy?

Answer: Doctors Without Borders,

Answer: Doctors Without Borders.

Answer: Gunmen

Answer: Attacks on aid workers

Answer: in southwestern Somalia,

Answer: Gunmen

Summary:
Gunman seized convoy in southwestern Somalia, let elders go, abducted workers .
Doctors without Borders has not yet released the names of those abducted .
Attacks on aid workers are common in the region .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- An enraged crowd dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldier through the streets of Somalia's capital Thursday after gun battles with Islamic insurgents killed 19 people, witnesses reported.

In a brutal echo of a 1993 battle involving Somali militias in which the bodies of U.S. troops were dragged through the streets, crowds Thursday shouted "God is great" as they pulled the bruised, bullet-riddled corpse through a dusty Mogadishu neighborhood.

The body was bound hand and foot with wire and wrapped in a sheet of plastic when insurgents pulled it out of a car and left it with the crowd in the northern Mogadishu neighborhood of Suqa Holaha, witnesses reported.

Nine Ethiopians are reportedly part of the 19 dead.

Another battle broke out on the city's south side Thursday morning between Ethiopian troops and insurgents armed with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. The fighting drove hundreds more people from their homes, on top of the tens of thousands aid agencies say have fled in recent weeks.

"Ethiopians will launch violent attacks on us, for some of their comrades have been killed today," said Rahma Nor Omar, an elderly woman in the capital. "They will be like wounded animals."

Witnesses put the death toll from the day's clashes at 19, including Ethiopian troops, insurgents and civilians.

Ethiopian troops arrived in Somalia in December 2006 to help a weak Somali government drive the Islamic Courts Union out of Mogadishu and restore a U.N.-backed transitional government after a decade and a half of near-anarchy. The Islamists responded by launching an insurgency against Somali government and Ethiopian troops that has lasted nearly a year.

The United States accused the ICU of harboring suspected al Qaeda figures, including three men wanted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and raised no objections to Ethiopian presence in Somalia.

Washington has long been concerned that Somalia could turn into a safe haven for terrorists, but ICU leaders denied harboring al Qaeda suspects. E-mail to a friend

Question: What is Washington concerned with?

Question: What is Washington concerned Somalia could turn into?

Question: When was a U.S. soldier dragged through the streets of Mogadishu?

Question: What did the incident recall?

Question: Who was the soldier who was dragged?

Question: What was the incident in Mogadishu in 1993 where a soldier was dragged?

Question: Where was the Ethiopian soldier killed?

Question: In what ways is Washington concerned that Somalia could turn into a safe haven for terrorists?

Question: Where was the battle?

Question: When was the Ethiopian soldier dragged?

Question: What was the soldier bound with?

Question: What is the number killed by insurgents?

Question: What country is Washington concerned about becoming a haven for terrorists?

Question: What was the body bound with?

Question: Where was the US soldier dragged?

Question: What happened to the Ethiopian soldier?

Answer: that Somalia could turn into a safe haven for terrorists,

Answer: safe haven for terrorists,

Answer: Thursday

Answer: 1993 battle involving Somali militias in which the bodies of U.S. troops were dragged through the streets,

Answer: Ethiopian

Answer: after gun battles with Islamic insurgents killed 19 people,

Answer: Somalia's capital

Answer: harboring suspected al Qaeda figures,

Answer: Mogadishu

Answer: Thursday

Answer: wire

Answer: 19 people,

Answer: Somalia

Answer: wire

Answer: through the streets,

Answer: The body was bound hand and foot with wire and wrapped in a sheet of plastic when insurgents pulled it out of a car and left it with the crowd in the northern Mogadishu neighborhood of Suqa Holaha,

Summary:
Ethiopian soldier dragged after battle with Islamic insurgents killed 19 people .
The body was bound hand and foot with wire and wrapped in a sheet of plastic .
Incident recalls 1993 dragging of U.S. soldier through streets of Mogadishu .
Washington is concerned Somalia could turn into a safe haven for terrorists .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- At least 39 civilians were killed in Somalia's capital Monday after a convoy of African Union peacekeepers was hit by a roadside bomb, causing the troops to open fire, officials and eyewitnesses said.

Islamist militia display weapons Monday in defiance of newly elected President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

Maj. Ba-Huko Barigye, spokesman to the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISON), said an explosion targeted a contingent of Ugandan troops. At least one soldier was injured and one of the vehicles damaged, Barigye said.

Ahmed Dirie Ali, spokesman of Hawiye Traditional Elders -- a major group of local clan leaders -- condemned the civilian deaths. And Mogadishu's deputy mayor, Abdifatah Ibrahim Shaweye, accused AMISOM of killing innocent civilians deliberately during a "brutal attack," an allegation Barigye denied.

"The deputy mayor has got the wrong information," he said. "They are targeting AMISOM, but the people who have died are all Somali civilians, who have nothing, whatsoever to do with AMISOM."

Officials say the incident happened on Maka al-Mukarama road, which connects the presidential palace and the airport in southern Mogadishu. The incident occurred on the same day that the new Somali president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, was attending an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006, to depose an Islamic government led by Ahmed that had taken control of Mogadishu. But at the summit, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged continued support for national reconciliation efforts in Somalia, which has been without an effective central government since 1991.

"It is important that these efforts should have a tangible effect in improving the security environment for the Somali people and humanitarian actors," Ban said in a statement released by his office. "The United Nations will provide strong logistical support to the African Union's AMISOM force and help develop Somali security forces."

He also encouraged AU leaders to consider a plan that will incorporate AMISOM into a larger U.N. peacekeeping force in the months ahead.

AMISOM was set up to take over from Ethiopian forces, which were supposed to be withdrawn soon after the December 2006 invasion that deposed the Islamic Courts Union, which Ahmed once led. But the Ethiopians and the country's U.N.-backed transitional government were soon battling Islamist guerrillas, including the militia al-Shabaab -- which the United States has designated as a terrorist group with links to al Qaeda.

The transitional government eventually signed a peace agreement with a new movement led by Ahmed, the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia. But al-Shabaab has rejected the deal and continued fighting.

The militia overran the town of Baidoa, the seat of the transitional government, within hours of the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops last week. Ahmed was elected president Saturday by lawmakers in Djibouti, and many Somalis view him as a final hope to challenge the militia and its extremist ideology.

CNN's Amir Ahmed and Ahmednor Mohamed Farah for CNN contributed to this report.

Question:
Whose deaths occurred on the road?
where did civilian deaths occurr
what does the deputy mayor say
Who is making the statement?
Where did the deaths occur?
what strikes African Union peacekeepers
Who did the bomb strike?

Answer: 39 civilians

Answer: MOGADISHU, Somalia

Answer: accused AMISOM of killing innocent civilians

Answer: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Answer: MOGADISHU, Somalia

Answer: roadside bomb,

Answer: of African Union peacekeepers was hit by a roadside

Summary:
Roadside bomb strikes African Union peacekeepers, AU mission says .
Officials: Civilian deaths occurred on road between presidential palace, airport .
Mogadishu deputy mayor, AU spokesman disagree over cause of civilian deaths .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it's nothing new in the Somali capital. Casualties are taken into Mogadishu's hospital on stretchers. Government forces are fighting against insurgents on this day in September in a bloody battle that leaves 30 dead. Dozens of wounded Somalis are taken out of the danger zone, some of them in the back of insurgents' pick-up trucks. One of the trucks races through the streets, zig-zagging to the echoing booms of the ongoing shelling. The truck comes to an abrupt halt, stopping at a rare sight in the Somali capital -- an ambulance, waiting at the heart of the chaos to ferry the dead and the injured to the hospital. The wounded are transferred onto the ambulance. People shout and run as the mortar attacks continue. One woman screams over and over for her son. The ambulance is one of seven medical vehicles paid for with donated funds from local and expatriate Somalis. Residents can simply call for the ambulances without charge, and the vehicles will be dispatched to the scene. "It is amazing," said Rufai Salad, one of the founders of the ambulance service in the Somali capital. "We have this toll-free number, 777, that you dial. Someone is giving you a free call and then coming and giving you free help. "People here find it hard to believe it is real." Life Line Africa, a local Somali charity, started its ambulance service in Mogadishu in December, bringing a small amount of order to the lawless country that is in the midst of a brutal Islamist insurgency. Apart from the short-lived rule of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006, there has been no genuine central authority in Somalia since the collapse of Mohamed Siad Barre's repressive regime in 1991. Now, the United States and other Western powers are propping the U.N.-backed transitional government forces in their attempt to fend off the insurgency, particularly Al-Shabaab -- a Somali militant group that has ties to al Qaeda.  Watch Nima Elbagir's report on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia » Basic amenities in Somalia, like electricity, water and sanitation - and even luxuries such as wireless Internet facilities -- are provided by enterprising businessman, which is partly how the ambulance service came to life. In the Somali equivalent of a public-private partnership, clan elders and local businessman donated the money to fund the ambulance service, helping fulfill a crucial need. The ambulance drivers are well compensated, earning about U.S. $200 a month in a country where the average yearly income is $130, according to the United Nations. Life Line Africa's monthly budget for its Mogadishu ambulance service is $3,200, including fuel, running costs and the salaries of the 10 drivers. They hope to increase their driving staff to 14. Salad, 24, is an information technology officer for the Somali president's office, but volunteers his time to help keep Life Line Africa running. His enthusiasm about the ambulance service obscures the very real danger he and his drivers face. Part of the problem, he explains, is trying to stay neutral in a war zone. "We did have one driver killed by Al-Shabaab," he admits. "They told us that it was because we were carrying government soldiers to hospital. But I said to them that this is what we do - we are working for all of you." And it's not just the insurgents that Salad and his drivers fear. "We had to take the body of a Syrian ship captain who had been killed by pirates to the airport," he said. "The government and African Union soldiers opened fire on the ambulance. We were later told they'd received information that the insurgency was planning on using an ambulance to stage a suicide attack." "But what can you do?" he asks. "Our driver ran away and then later was allowed to come back for his ambulance." Salad says the relatively high pay is not the real reason

Question: How much do ambulance drivers earn?

Question: What is national average annual salary?

Question: Who is fighting?

Question: What is the national average annual salary for ambulance drivers?

Question: What did the volunteer ambulance ferry?

Question: What do the volunteers do?

Answer: are well compensated, earning about U.S. $200 a month

Answer: $130,

Answer: Government forces

Answer: $200 a month

Answer: the dead and the injured to the hospital.

Answer: help keep Life Line Africa running.

Summary:
Volunteer ambulance service ferries wounded civilians and fighters to the hospital .
Drivers face problems from both sides of the conflict in the capital, Mogadishu .
Ambulance drivers earn $200 a month; national average annual salary is $130 .
U.N.-backed transitional government forces are fighting Islamist insurgents .


MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Ethiopian troops have not yet begun to withdraw from key positions in the capital of Somalia two days after they were supposed to do so under a peace agreement designed to end years of conflict.

Ethiopian troops are yet to leave the Somlai capital despite a peace agreement.

The Ethiopians had agreed to withdraw from some bases by Friday under an agreement signed last month by the Somali transitional government and a rebel faction known as the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia two years ago to expel Islamic forces who had conquered Mogadishu. Under the deal signed October 26, a cease-fire between the transitional government and the ARS went into effect November 5. The Ethiopians were to withdraw from from key positions in the capital on November 21, and leave the country entirely early in 2009.

Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein has said that Ethiopian troops will withdraw as agreed.

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate leader of the rebel ARS, told the local radio station Shabelle Saturday that the Ethiopian troops would pull out on schedule.

Insurgents clashed with Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies Friday, witnesses said, leaving at least 11 fighters dead.

The fighting started when armed insurgent fighters attacked the house of a local commissioner in Mogadishu's Wadajir district, sparking heavy fighting between the government troops guarding the house and the insurgents.

"I saw 11 men wearing red turbans on the heads dead on the ground," local resident Mohamed Haji Ali told CNN by phone from a house near where the clashes took place. Other residents provided a similar death toll.

The commissioner whose house was attacked, Ahmed Da'd, said that his soldiers killed 17 insurgents. He displayed what he said were some of the dead insurgents for the media.

It is not clear what will happen if the Ethiopian troops remain in Mogadishu despite the October 26 peace deal. Under that agreement, government and opposition members will form a 10,000-member joint police force to keep order, along with the African Union peacekeeping mission now in place and a U.N. force to be deployed later. Both sides will work toward establishing a unity government in Somalia, which has been riven by 17 years of strife since the collapse of its last fully functional government.

Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December 2006 to install the transitional government in Mogadishu after a decade and a half of near-anarchy. The invasion had the blessing of the United States, which accused the Islamic Courts Union -- which captured Mogadishu earlier that year -- of harboring fugitives from al Qaeda. The Islamists responded with a guerrilla campaign against government and Ethiopian troops.

Efforts to replace the Ethiopians with an African Union-led peacekeeping mission faltered as the violence worsened, and heavy fighting in Mogadishu and other cities drove hundreds of thousands from their homes. The lawlessness also spilled on to the seas off the Horn of Africa, where international vessels are routinely hijacked by suspected Somali pirates who demand large ransoms.

Journalist Abdinasir Mohamed Guled and CNN's Mohammed Amiin and Amir Ahmed contributed to this report.

Question: What was designed to end conflict?

Question: What day did they agree to withdraw by?

Question: Which country were Ethiopian troops occupying?

Question: Ethiopian troops have yet to withdraw from where?

Question: Where are the Ethiopian troops withdrawing from?

Question: When will bases withdraw?

Question: What did troops do?

Question: What was the peace agreement designed to end?

Question: When did these troops agree to move by?

Question: When were the troops supposed to withdraw?

Question: What nation were the Ethiopian troops fighting in?

Answer: a peace agreement

Answer: November 21,

Answer: Somalia

Answer: capital of Somalia

Answer: capital of Somalia

Answer: by Friday under

Answer: have not yet begun to withdraw

Answer: years of conflict.

Answer: Friday

Answer: November 21,

Answer: Somalia.

Summary:
Ethiopian troops yet begin to withdraw from key positions in Somali capital .
Ethiopians had agreed to withdraw from some bases by Friday .
They were supposed to do so under a peace agreement designed to end conflict .


MONT TREMBLANT, Quebec  (CNN) -- Natasha Richardson came to Mont Tremblant ski resort in eastern Canada last month for what was supposed to be a skiing getaway.

Actress Natasha Richardson died after suffering an epidural hematoma in a fall during a ski lesson.

But what she may not have known is some doctors have been arguing that if a person here is in need of urgent care at a medical trauma center, he or she may not be able to get there fast enough. The only way to get to the closest trauma center from here is to drive 2½ hours to Montreal. No helicopter medical service is available.

The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail obtained 911 recordings from Monday, March 16, when Richardson fell on a beginners slope on a sunny, clear day at the resort. The first request for help came in at 12:43 p.m., an urgent call that a woman had fallen on the slopes. That woman was Richardson. Seventeen minutes later, at 1 p.m., an ambulance arrived, but Richardson had been able to walk away from the fall and was headed back to her hotel room.

Ten minutes later the ambulance was told to stand down, the call canceled.

What Richardson couldn't have known is that she suffered an epidural hematoma. It's a condition where a blood clot forms between the skull and the outer layer of the brain. Too much pressure can cause brain damage and even death. Symptoms include dizziness, headaches and nausea.

"The person seems to be fine and walks it off, and that's one of the problems with an injury such as this," said Dr. Liam Durkan, a neurologist with the Montreal Neurology Institute. "Anytime there is any sort of process expanding in the skull, which is a closed space, once the symptoms are apparent, it can be a matter of 30 minutes to an hour to 90 minutes before there is a major deterioration."

Two hours after her initial fall, while Richardson was back in her hotel room, she was feeling the symptoms. The clock was ticking and she needed to get to a trauma center fast. With the closest trauma center 2½ hours away, time may have been running out on her. It's recommended that anyone with an epidural hematoma get to the trauma center within 30-90 minutes.

At 2:59 p.m., another ambulance was dispatched to the resort. This time, the paramedics went inside and worked on Richardson for 33 minutes before transporting her to the closest hospital an hour away, but it is not a trauma center. Inside the ambulance, Richardson drifted in and out of consciousness.

"It is a rapidly deteriorating situation and the distance might have been just too much by ambulance, road ambulance or air ambulance. It's difficult to say," said Durkan, who did not treat Richardson. Depending on the severity of the injury at the time, he said, even helicopter services may have been too late.

Some trauma doctors have argued for air transport here since the mid-1990s. They say the safest and fastest way to move anyone suffering a trauma injury such as Richardson's is by helicopter. Helicopter transport is common practice in the United States and other areas of Canada. But in the Quebec region, very few places have access to air transport.

In an open letter to the citizens of Quebec sent to the Montreal Gazette, Dr. Michael Churchill Smith, director of professional services at the Montreal General Hospital, said incidents like Natasha Richardson's should serve as a wake-up call to Quebec. "It is no longer morally acceptable for our citizens who, in the moment of their greatest needs, do not have access to a rapid transit system that gives them the best chance to not only survive, but to survive with a quality of life."

Daniel LeFrancois, director of Quebec's pre-hospital care, told the Gazette that cost is prohibitive when a one-hour flight costs $6,000. It's a question of resources and priorities focusing on "the biggest gain for the biggest need," he said.

Richardson was taken from Mont Tremblant to a hospital in

Question: For what reason did they have to drive Natasha Richardson to the trauma center?

Question: Where was Natasha Richadrson injured?

Question: What happened to Natasha Richardson?

Question: With epidural hematoma, what is survival window without treatment?

Question: What have some Canadian doctors been arguing about since the 1990's?

Question: Was heliciopter medical service available?

Question: What is the time frame for survival of epidural hematoma?

Question: since when Canadian trauma doctors have argued for air transport?

Question: where was Natasha Richardson  injured?

Answer: after suffering an epidural hematoma in a fall during a ski lesson.

Answer: Mont Tremblant ski resort

Answer: died after suffering an epidural hematoma in a fall

Answer: 30 minutes to an hour to 90 minutes

Answer: air transport

Answer: No

Answer: matter of 30 minutes to an hour to 90 minutes before there is a major deterioration."

Answer: the mid-1990s.

Answer: Mont Tremblant ski resort

Summary:
Resort where Natasha Richardson was injured is 2½-hour drive from trauma center .
No helicopter medical services are available .
With epidural hematoma, survival window without treatment is about 90 minutes .
Some Canadian trauma doctors have argued for air transport since 1990s .


MONTE CARLO, Monaco  -- Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva has broken her own world record in the women's pole vault with a leap of 5.04 meters as she warmed up for her Olympic defense. Isinbayeva broke her own women's pole vault world record on her third attempt in Monaco. The record came at the Monaco Grand Prix on Tuesday on her third and final attempt at the height. Her previous record of 5.03 meters was set in Rome on July 11. Isinbayeva is the reigning Olympic and world champion. Asafa Powell claimed his third 100 meters success inside a week when he raced clear in his season-best time of 9.82 seconds. Powell shaved 0.06sec off his previous season-best of 9.88, set last Tuesday in Stockholm, where he saw off fellow Jamaican and world record holder Usain Bolt. On Tuesday Powell was too hot for Davis Patton of the U.S. (9.98) and Nesta Carter of Jamaica (10.02), the fourth best time of the season all the more impressive given the calm conditions. "I am very happy," said Powell. "I feel great, very fresh. I've got a world record in my legs. I am very confident. My goal is to be consistent." A tough headwind had compromised Powell's attempts to have a tilt at Bolt's mark although he still cruised to a weekend victory at the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace in 9.94sec. Other Tuesday highlights saw Jamaica's Melaine Walker set a year mark in the women's 400m hurdles in clocking 53.48 sec. Walker, who shattered her own personal best of 54.14 in the process, will hope her performance augurs well for the Beijing Games, where Aussie two-time world champion Jana Rawlinson will not be competing owing to a toe injury. Kenyan Daniel Kipchirchir Komen also set a year best mark in the 1500m, crossing the line in 3 min 31.49sec to take 0.08sec off compatriot Augustine Kiprono Choge's June 1 showing in Berlin. The 23-year-old's win tempered the disappointment of missing out on an Olympic berth. Britain's Martyn Rooney also improved his personal best in the 400 meters for the second successive race, following up his win in the London Grand Prix with victory in 44.72 seconds. The Monaco Grand Prix was the last major international track and field meeting before the Beijing Olympics which start on August 8.

Question: Which Jamaican athlete won three 100 meters races?

Question: What did Powell win?

Question: Who broke her own world record?

Question: Who broke the record?

Question: Whose record did she break?

Question: Where was the record broken?

Answer: Asafa Powell

Answer: claimed his third 100 meters success

Answer: Yelena Isinbayeva

Answer: Yelena Isinbayeva

Answer: her own world

Answer: Monaco Grand Prix

Summary:
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva breaks her own women's world pole vault record .
Leaps 5.04 meters on her third and final attempt at height at Monaco meeting .
Jamaican Asafa Powell wins third 100 meters race in a week in 9.82 seconds .


MONTEREY PARK, California (CNN) -- Five men are accused of starting a massive Malibu wildfire at that destroyed more than 50 homes and forced about 15,000 people to evacuate. A firefighter works to contain a wildfire threatening homes in Malibu, California, on November 24. Authorities say the five, ranging in ages from 18 to 27, were drinking in a popular party spot in a cave at the park when they started the fire. All five are from the Los Angeles area and are being charged with three felonies -- including two arson-related charges. Each count carries a sentence of two to four years in prison. Baca said investigators traced the fire to the cave, then used receipts and surveillance camera footage from a nearby store to hunt down the men. Investigators would not comment on why the men started the fire. During the investigation, fire officials speculated that a campfire may have started the blaze -- which engulfed roughly 5,000 acres and destroyed 80 structures, including the 53 homes. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in the wake of the fire, which started on November 24. The blaze, which was fueled by dry Santa Ana winds and low humidity, followed a spate of California wildfires in October that charred more than 508,000 acres in several counties. Those fires forced 1 million people from their homes and left 14 people dead. The men are expected to make their first court appearance on Monday. E-mail to a friend

Question: All five are from where?

Question: What were the men doing in the cave?

Question: How many homes were destroyed because of the men?

Question: How many acres were engulfed?

Question: Where were the men partying?

Question: Fire engulfed how many acres?

Question: Where were the five from?

Question: What helped investigators find the men?

Question: Men were partying where?

Question: How many felonies were the men charged with?

Question: Number of acres the firest destroyed?

Answer: Los Angeles area

Answer: drinking in a popular party spot in a

Answer: more than 50

Answer: 5,000

Answer: in a cave at the park

Answer: 508,000

Answer: Los Angeles area

Answer: used receipts and surveillance camera footage from a nearby store to hunt down the

Answer: popular party spot in a cave at the park

Answer: three

Answer: 5,000

Summary:
NEW: Men were partying in a cave .
All five are from the Los Angeles area and are being charged with three felonies .
Receipts and surveillance camera footage helped investigators find the men .
Fire engulfed about 5,000 acres and destroyed more than 50 homes last month .


MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (CNN) -- Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.

New Jersey requires children from 6 months to 5 years old to get the flu vaccine to attend daycare or pre-school.

The rush for vaccinations is prompted by a new law that makes New Jersey the only state requiring children between 6 months and 5 years old to get the flu vaccine to attend a licensed daycare or pre-school. The deadline for the flu shot requirement was December 31.

Some parents are upset about the requirement. John General and Alnisa Bernabela brought their 4-year-old twins Jahmein and Jameir to the clinic last week for the flu shots.

"I'm really not okay with it because I think it should have been my choice," said Bernabela.

"By them forcing this, I feel like our rights have been violated," said General, holding his crying son Jameir being vaccinated.

Last fall, hundreds of parents with the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice challenged the flu shot requirement at a rally in Trenton, New Jersey. The NJCVC and parents interviewed by CNN, expressed concern about the safety of influenza vaccines and possible long-term effects on young children.

But the New Jersey Department of Health says the new law is for the public good citing Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention numbers showing an average of 20,000 children under age 5 are hospitalized nationwide each year because of influenza complications.

"Parents are certainly concerned about the health and safety of their children," says Dr. Christina Tan, state epidemiologist for the New Jersey Department of Health. "But it's equally important to understand that the flu vaccine is safe and effective in preventing illness, not only in children, but also among the community as a whole."

Many doctors support the decision, saying it helps protect a higher risk population.  Some parents object to mandatory vaccines »

"Kids under the age of 5 are targeted by this recommendation because when they get the disease they get sicker than adults do. They also are the ones who are more likely to transmit the flu because they are in closed quarters," said Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, who heads the clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey. She says influenza tends to peak in New Jersey towards the end of January through early February.

Jennifer Frank says she's committed to the public health goal but not on the state's schedule. Her 2-year-old son Caleb was hospitalized twice for extreme eczema as an infant. At one point, he was on a feeding tube, and she says he couldn't get vaccinated.

"There was literally no clear space to put a needle," says Jennifer Frank.

Caleb's doctors were stumped and couldn't make a diagnosis for his condition. Since then, the Franks with their pediatrician's approval, have Caleb on a delayed vaccination schedule. As a result, they didn't meet the state's December 31 flu shot deadline and now their local board of health has banned Caleb from pre-school.

"When he gets his shots, that same rash flares up," says Joshua Frank, the father of Caleb. "You know, it's frightening. It's very real. And for them to say, 'Well, we don't care, even though your doctors agree with you,' is outrageous."

The Franks have appealed the local board of health's decision all the way to the state level, but officials have not wavered. While New Jersey does offer medical exemptions for some children, the rules are specific, and eczema is not considered a valid medical reason for delaying the flu vaccine.

"By allowing broader exemptions this could potentially erode the very core of protection," says Tan.

But the Franks believe the new law should include an appeal procedure, especially for families like theirs that are willing to vaccinate their children.

New Jersey Republican Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk has been working on legislation to allow parents to decide which vaccines

Question: Are some parents against this new law?

Question: who believes law protects higher risk population?

Question: Is flu vaccine compulsory in New Jersey for children to attend pre-school or day care?

Question: who requires flu vaccine for children?

Question: Do many doctors believe the law protects a high risk group?

Answer: are upset about the requirement.

Answer: Many doctors

Answer: from 6 months

Answer: New Jersey

Answer: population.

Summary:
New Jersey requires flu vaccine for children to attend daycare, pre-school .
Some parents oppose new law; believe it should be their choice to vaccinate kids .
Flu vaccine is safe; many doctors believe law protects a higher-risk population .


MORROW, Georgia (CNN) -- Jobless for nearly a year, Michael Rivers was about to walk out of his house a few weeks ago to catch the bus for another daylong employment hunt when a radio announcement stopped him. With Ludacris at her side, single mom Joya Montgomery, 26, proudly displays keys to her car Sunday. "This is Ludacris, and I'm giving away 20 free cars. ..." The famous rapper was pulling an Oprah in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. The rapper announced that if listeners were able to pay the taxes, registration, tags and insurance, they should go to his nonprofit Ludacris Foundation Web site and write 300 words about why they deserved new wheels. "And make it good," Luda warned.  Watch Ludacris talk about his "stimulus" plan » Four thousand people took him up on his challenge, and in a few days, more than 2,000 essays poured into the Nissan South dealership in Morrow, Georgia, that had teamed with the rapper on the used-car giveaway.  See and hear the winners tell their stories » Rivers' essay was among them. "I didn't even wait; I just continued out that door to the community center, sat at a computer and let all my emotions come out," he said. Rivers described riding the city bus with his 14-year-old daughter to make sure she arrived safely at school and how he recently celebrated the small victory of getting his 17-year-old autistic son, who can't tolerate crowds, to stand calmly for a few moments outside the bus stop. He doesn't live near a grocery store so he has to bring home the food he can carry on the bus. Rivers was laid off from his job as a court clerk in the summer of 2008, and making job interviews on time isn't easy when the bus is often late. But on Sunday afternoon, Rivers was giddy, slightly bouncing as he spoke. He stood shoulder to shoulder among the 20 winners and their friends and families waiting to see their cars. "I don't care what it is," Rivers said. "I'm grateful for any car with four wheels because it beats two heels." Winners received 30 days of free gas, which will be a big help to Joya Montgomery, a 26-year-old single parent of a 4-year-old, 8-year-old and 3-month-old. She has been waking before 5 a.m. and walking to the bus stop, while it's dark, with her children to begin a long journey to her job and to drop them off at school or a friend's home. "It was scary at times," she said. "You don't even know who's out there. I was always looking over my shoulder. "I just can't believe I won. I'm real happy." In the parking lot, the crowd was dancing. But the bass of Ludacris' latest single blasting from the dealership's loudspeakers was secondary inspiration for one Atlanta grandmother. Fifty-one-year-old Vermelle Jackson was so excited to have a 2005 Mercury Sable to drive around grandchildren, nieces and nephews that she swiveled her hips around and dipped it shockingly low to the ground. "Lord Jesus. ... He brought this car to me, baby!" she shouted, arms raised. "This is God's work!" Actually, the giveaway idea came from Chris White, the jovial, hand-shaking manager of Nissan South. "I knew someone who knew someone who knew Luda and, you know, we just made it happen," White said. The concept seemed like a winner for everyone. Like many dealerships, Nissan South has not yet been reimbursed for the money it spent upfront during the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program that allowed customers to trade in older cars for $3,500 or $4,500 credit. When the popular program ended August 24, the car dealer didn't want to turn away customers who kept streaming in, expecting to get the

Question: How many did he give away

Question: who does Atlanta-raised celebrity gives used cars to?

Question: how many essays have been received?

Answer: 20

Answer: listeners

Answer: more than 2,000

Summary:
Some 4,000 essays received after dealership partners with rapper for giveaway .
Atlanta-raised celebrity gives used cars to single mom, laid-off worker, refugee .
Program also is way for dealership possibly to write off cars as charity .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- A Russian serial murderer dubbed the "Chessboard Killer" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years. A Moscow jury convicted Alexander Pichushkin last week of 48 murders and three attempted murders. Pichushkin claimed he had actually committed 60 murders, though prosecutors were unable to find evidence to prove that. Pichushkin earned the nickname "Chessboard Killer" for saying he had intended to kill one person for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard. In ordering Pichushkin to receive compulsory psychiatric therapy, the judge said the defendant has a mental disorder but is still sane and cannot avoid responsibility for his crimes. Throughout his trial, Pichushkin gloated over his crimes and ridiculed the police case against him. "I was dismayed my work had been attributed to others," Pichushkin said. "In one week, I killed two people. If they hadn't caught me, I would have never stopped. Having caught me, they saved many lives." Watch video report on serial killer Alexander Pichushkin For years until his arrest in June 2006, Pichushkin kept Moscow on edge, stalking the heavily forested Bitsa Park on the city's southern outskirts and preying on the homeless and elderly. Pichushkin claimed to have committed all but one of his murders in the park. He lured his victims with the promise of alcohol and, after getting them drunk on vodka, he beat them to death and dumped their bodies in the park. It led Russian media to give Pichushkin his other nickname, the "Bitsa Maniac." Over the years, Russian police recovered dozens of corpses, some with sticks and vodka bottles rammed into their skulls. But the crucial lead came in 2005, when a woman Pichushkin worked with at a vegetable store was found dead. She had left a note at her home saying she was going for a walk with him. Pichushkin said he had been aware of the note but killed her anyway. E-mail to a friend CNN Correspondent Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

Question: Who was found guilty?

Question: how long was the serial killer sentenced to?

Question: Who was ordered to undergo psychiatirc treatment?

Question: Who sentenced serial killer to maximum sentence?

Question: What was Alexander Pichushkin found guilty of?

Question: what does Alexander have to do in prison?

Question: Who has been sentenced to maximum sentence of life in prison.

Question: How many were killed?

Answer: Alexander Pichushkin

Answer: life in prison

Answer: Alexander Pichushkin

Answer: A Moscow jury

Answer: 48 murders and three attempted murders.

Answer: undergo psychiatric therapy

Answer: Alexander Pichushkin

Answer: 48

Summary:
Moscow court sentences serial killer to maximum sentence of life in prison .
Alexander Pichushkin was found guilty of killing 48 people .
He was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment at the prison .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- A Russian-led bloc of post-Soviet nations has agreed to establish a rapid-reaction military force to combat terrorists and respond to regional emergencies, Russian media reported Wednesday.

Russian navy soldiers stand guard during a military ceremony.

The decision came a day after reports that Kyrgyzstan is planning to close a strategically important U.S. military base that Washington uses to transport troops and supplies into Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, the Collective Security Treaty Organization -- made up of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan -- decided on the rapid-reaction force at a Kremlin summit, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.

The group's security council "spent a long time discussing the central issue of forming collective reaction forces and, generally, of rapid reaction to possible threats," said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, according to Russian news agency Interfax.

"Everyone agreed that the formation of joint forces is necessary," he said.

Officials told Russian media that all the members had signed the agreement, though Uzbekistan submitted a special provision.

Uzbekistan doesn't mind contributing military units to the rapid-reaction force "but does not consider it necessary for the moment" to attach emergency responders, drug-control forces and other special services, organization spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Interfax.

Russian media reported that the force will be used to fight military aggressors, conduct anti-terror operations, battle regional drug trafficking and respond to natural disasters. The force will be based in Russia under a single command, with member nations contributing military units.

On Tuesday, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced at a Moscow news conference that "all due procedures" were being initiated to close Manas Air Base, RIA-Novosti reported. The announcement was made after news reports of a multimillion-dollar aid package from Russia to Kyrgyzstan.

Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, was in Kyrgyzstan last month, partly to lobby the government to allow the United States to keep using the base. He said he and Kyrgyz leaders did not discuss "at all" the possible closure of the base and said local officials told him there was "no foundation" for news reports about the issue.

The United States is planning to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to halt a resurgence of the Taliban. Petraeus described Manas as having "an important role in the deployment of these forces" and in refueling aircraft.

The relationship between the United States and Kyrgyzstan was damaged when a Kyrgyz citizen was killed by a U.S. airman in December 2006. The airman was transferred out of Kyrgyzstan, and the dead man's family was offered compensation. Petraeus said in January that the investigation was being reopened.

As he announced the base closure Tuesday, Bakiyev said he was not satisfied with the inquiry into the accident and his government's "inability to provide security to its citizens" was proving a serious concern.  Medvedev also weighed in on the issue Wednesday, saying the base closure shouldn't hamper anti-terrorism operations, according to Interfax.

"It would be great if their numbers meant there were fewer terrorists, but such action depends on other things as well," he said.

Question: Where will it be based?

Question: What did the Russian media say?

Question: How many nations came into agreement?

Question: Who agreedto form rapid-reaction force?

Question: Which media is responding?

Question: What number of nations have agreed reaction?

Question: What does the Russian media say?

Question: What does Russia say

Question: Where is US base

Question: Which seven nations are invloved?

Question: Where will it be based?

Question: What was agreed

Answer: Russia

Answer: military force to combat terrorists and respond to regional emergencies,

Answer: Tajikistan

Answer: A Russian-led bloc of post-Soviet nations

Answer: Russian

Answer: Tajikistan

Answer: reported that the force will be used to fight military aggressors, conduct anti-terror operations, battle regional drug trafficking and respond to natural disasters. The force will be based in Russia under a single command, with member nations contributing military units.

Answer: agreed to establish a rapid-reaction

Answer: Kyrgyzstan

Answer: Tajikistan

Answer: in Russia

Answer: to establish a rapid-reaction

Summary:
Seven nations agree to form rapid-reaction force .
Russian media say force will fight terrorism, respond to disasters .
It will be based in Russia under a single command .
Report comes after Kyrgyzstan says it will close U.S. base .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- A passenger jet caught fire early Sunday, exploded and crashed into railway tracks in the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 people on board. Wreckage from the Aeroflot-Nord Boeing 737, which crashed near Perm, lies across a railway track. The exact cause of the pre-dawn crash is under investigation, but government spokesman Vladimir Markin said "a technical breakdown" was a likely cause. Markin said in televised remarks that the failure of one of the Boeing 737-500's two engines may have caused the plane to come down, The Associated Press reported. Airline officials have said there is no indication of terrorism. "We think it's very doubtful that it was the result of a terrorist attack, because at the scene, there were no traces of explosives as we know for now," said Lev Koshlyakov, Deputy Director General of Aeroflot. It took firefighters more than two hours to extinguish the blazing wreckage. When the sun rose, pieces of the Aeroflot jet were strewn about the railroad tracks. "It slammed in front of my house, and there was a huge flame," an unidentified woman in Perm told Russian state television. "It looked like fireworks." She said the impact of the crash "threw me across my sheets.... Then my daughter ran in from the next room and asked if a war had started." She and other witnesses said they saw the aircraft burning before it came crashing down. "It looked like a comet," she said. The jet was en route to Perm from Moscow when the pilots lost communication with air traffic control just before landing about 3:10 a.m. (2110 GMT), an Aeroflot official said. He described the weather at the time as "mediocre." The public safety minister for the Perm region said investigators were combing a 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) area, including homes and railways.  Watch more about the crash » "Right now, it's apparent that there was a fire on the plane at one kilometer in the air," Yuri Orlov said. "After that, all contact was cut off -- the plane exploded." The flight data recorder has been recovered and will be analyzed by the International Aviation Commission, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said. The plane carried 82 passengers, including seven children, and a crew of six. At least 21 non-Russians were on board, including passport-holders from Azerbaijan, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Ukraine, said Lev Koshlyakov, Aeroflot's deputy director general. The U.S. Embassy confirmed that no Americans were on board the flight, even though one passenger was listed as a U.S. citizen. It is the second crash in the region involving a Boeing 737 in less than a month. An Iran-bound Boeing 737 with 90 people on board crashed on August 24 just outside the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, killing 68. The 737 is a workhorse of the airline industry, with thousands of planes in service. Aeroflot said the one that crashed in Perm was manufactured in 1992 and was operated by its Aeroflot-Nord subsidiary. "This Boeing 737 has all the necessary certificates," Koshlyakov said. "We conduct audits and inspections of all the affiliate companies we work with in the realm of their effectiveness, safety and reliability of the airplanes." Airline safety in Russia and the former Soviet Union is among the worst in the world. Aviation experts say poor maintenance, inadequate pilot training and weak government controls are major factors. But Aeroflot is considered one of the safer airlines in the region. Sunday's crash is the first fatal accident for the airline since 1994, when a Russian pilot handed control of an Airbus to his 15-year-old son. It crashed, killing all 75 people on board. Russia's government has now ordered an inquiry into the latest incident, to find out how another routine flight could have ended in tragedy. The National Transportation Safety Board will send a team of investigators to Perm to look into the

Question: What did officials say about terrorism?

Question: who is it operated by?

Question: who was sent to investigate?

Question: how many people died

Question: Which U.S. team is being sent to investigate?

Question: what did they investegate

Question: what was the crash caused by?

Answer: "We think it's very doubtful that it was the result of a terrorist attack, because at the scene, there were no traces of explosives as we know for now,"

Answer: Aeroflot-Nord subsidiary.

Answer: The National Transportation Safety Board

Answer: 88

Answer: The National Transportation Safety Board

Answer: The exact cause of the pre-dawn crash

Answer: "a technical breakdown"

Summary:
NEW: National Transportation Safety Board to send team from U.S. to investigate .
NEW: Crash likely caused by engine failure, investigator reported as saying .
Boeing 737 en route to Perm from Moscow was operated by Aeroflot Nord .
Officials have said there is no indication of terrorism .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- A strong Russia is good for the United States, President Obama said in a speech in Moscow, where he is visiting in an effort to "reset" the countries' relations. President Obama meets with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday before heading to the G-8 in Italy. Obama delivered a commencement speech Tuesday at a Moscow graduate school. "America wants a strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia," he told a large crowd at the New Economic School. "This belief is rooted in our respect for the Russian people, and a shared history between our nations that goes beyond competition." He repeated the message in a meeting later with Russian business leaders, but also said Russia has to do more to fight corruption. "We have to promote transparency, accountability, rule of law on which investments and economic growth depend," he said.  Watch Obama discuss thoughts on Kremlin visit » "We want Russia to be selling us goods and we want Russia to be buying goods from us," he said. "Total trade between our countries is just $36 billion. Our trade -- America's trade with Russia -- is only about 1 percent of all our trade with the world -- 1 percent -- a percent that's virtually unchanged since the Cold War."  Watch Obama's full opening statement » Obama later met Russian opposition leaders, speaking of the importance for the country to "not simply tolerate dissenting voices but also to respect and recognize dissenting voices." Obama also spoke to civil society leaders, promising the United States will support universal values and human rights such as the rights of people to live as they choose, to have a free press and to speak their minds. On Monday Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and discussed a series of agreements -- including one on nuclear-arms reduction -- as part of an effort to strengthen ties between the one-time Cold War rivals. The two signed a deal on parameters for negotiations to replace the START agreement, with the goal of reducing nuclear weapons. START expires December 5.  Watch Obama discuss arms control pact » Under Monday's agreement, Russia and the United States will reduce their strategic warheads to a range of 1,500 to 1,675, and their strategic delivery vehicles to a range of 500 to 1,100. The numbers would be a reduction from the expiring START, which allowed 2,200 warheads and 1,600 launch vehicles. The two-day summit in Moscow was to help refocus a relationship that, according to Obama, "has suffered from a sense of drift" in recent years. The president reiterated that in his speech Tuesday. "That is why I have called for a 'reset' in relations between the United States and Russia," Obama said. "This must be more than a fresh start between the Kremlin and the White House, though that is important," he said. "It must be a sustained effort among the American and Russian people to identify mutual interests and to expand dialogue and cooperation that can pave the way to progress." Obama met with Medvedev again Tuesday and with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before heading to Italy for the Group of Eight summit. The G-8 agenda is packed with issues, including Iran, the global financial crisis, climate change and eradicating world poverty. Putin said his meeting with Obama was "very good and substantive." "We also talked about how we will be improving our relations in the near- and medium-term. It was a very well-intentioned and substantial conversation in many concrete fields. We have many points we agree on," Russia's prime minister said. After his speech, Obama sat down with Ed Henry, CNN senior White House correspondent, for a brief interview. The president spoke about a wide range of issues, including how much his daughters were enjoying Moscow, his impressions of Putin, relations with Iran and Michael Jackson. On Iran, Obama reiterated recent statements about the post-election protests there. "Events in recent weeks have disturbed the world.

Question:
What was said about the talks?
How long is the summit?
How long will the summit last?
Who signed the joint understanding?

Answer: "very good and substantive."

Answer: two-day

Answer: two-day

Answer: The two

Summary:
NEW: PM Putin: Much agreement in "well-intentioned, substantial" talks .
Obama cites respect for Russian people, shared history that transcends competition .
Obama is in Moscow for two-day summit with President Medvedev, Putin .
Obama, Medvedev sign "joint understanding" on cutting nuclear arsenals .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Any attempt to pardon Mikhail Khodorkovsky -- once Russia's richest man, now its most famous inmate -- must follow standard procedure, including an admission of guilt, the nation's president said Sunday. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, is imprisoned in a work camp 4,000 miles from Moscow. "Concerning the possibility of a pardon for someone, Khodorkovsky or anyone else, the procedure has to be carried out in accordance with our country's rules," President Dmitry Medvedev said in a transcript on his Web site. "In other words, a person must appeal to the president, plead guilty to having committed a crime and seek the appropriate resolution." The president dismissed talks of a pardon, saying, "at this point, there is nothing to discuss." Khodorkovsky once headed the Yukos oil company, once Russia's largest oil producer. He is serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. Medvedev described corruption as a "very serious Russian disease" and emphasized the need to fight it. "To this end, we have enacted a number of measures, including new legislation on corruption and special arrangements relating to government officials, their disclosures, declarations of income and so on," he said. "We are determined to continue this work, because we believe it is extremely important." The former oil magnate is incarcerated in a work camp near the town of Krasnokamensk, 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) from his native Moscow. He has been imprisoned since his arrest in 2003. Khodorkovsky had expressed a desire to run for office at the time and funded opposition political parties. He said the trial was part of a Kremlin campaign to destroy him and take the company he built from privatization deals of the 1990s. The Kremlin denied any role in his downfall. Yukos, which has since been crushed by a $27.5 billion back-tax bill, has been the object of a lengthy campaign by prosecutors and tax authorities. The court also ordered Khodorkovsky and his partner to pay about $600 million in back taxes.

Question: was he pardoned?

Question: what did he do for a living?

Question: What is former oil company head serving?

Question: What did president say?

Question: There will be no favoritism for whom?

Question: Who is serving nine years for fraud?

Question: What did Russian leader say?

Answer: The president dismissed talks of a pardon,

Answer: Khodorkovsky once headed the Yukos oil company,

Answer: nine-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion.

Answer: "Concerning the possibility of a pardon for someone, Khodorkovsky or anyone else, the procedure has to be carried out in accordance with our country's rules,"

Answer: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Answer: Mikhail Khodorkovsky,

Answer: "at this point, there is nothing to discuss."

Summary:
There will be no favoritism for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian leader says .
Former head of Yukos oil company serving nine years for fraud, tax evasion .
President says talks of a pardon are premature .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Dozens of gay and lesbian rights activists planning a parade in southwestern Moscow Saturday have been detained, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. Gay and lesbian rights activists are detained in Moscow Saturday ahead of a planned march. The arrests included Nikolai Alexeyev, a prominent gay activist in Russia, and his associate Nikolai Bayev, Interfax said, adding that more people trickling into the location were being arrested without explanation. Officials of Moscow's gay community had announced earlier plans to rally at Novopushkinsky Park in central Moscow, Interfax said. The arrests came ahead of Saturday night's Eurovision Song Contest, which is being held in Moscow. The contest has a strong following among the gay and lesbian community.  Watch police break up the march » Journalists from various countries gathered at the scene, as police barricaded the park with metal bars. Trucks with soldiers onboard were parked on nearby streets, Interfax said. UK gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, in a statement on his Web site ahead of the march, said it was being held to coincide with the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. "This parade is in defense of human rights. We are defending the often violated human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Russians. They want legal protection against discrimination and hate crimes. I support their cause. "Not all Russians are homophobic, but many are. Gay Russians suffer queer-bashing attacks, blackmail, verbal abuse and discrimination in education, housing and employment. This shames the great Russian nation." The Eurovision Song Contest, which began in 1956, sees singers and groups from a short list of European nations perform a specially written song before telephone votes from each nation decide the winner. In western Europe, the contest is regard as a light entertainment spectacular, with a strong following among the gay and lesbian community. Many fans dress up, hold parties and gather round the TV to watch the three-hour-plus televised marathon. In recent years, however, eastern European nations, which take the contest much more seriously, have come to dominate. The contest is also known for its political edge, as nations either give zero points to traditional enemies -- or, if they are enjoying good relations, the maximum number of points, as a sign of friendship. The most famous winners of the contest were ABBA, who came to attention as the Swedish entry with "Waterloo" in 1974. In 1988, Celine Dion won the contest while singing on behalf of Switzerland. The dance show Riverdance first came to attention as an interval act when the contest was held in Dublin, Ireland, in 1994. The organizers of the contest estimate it is watched by 100 million people worldwide.

Question: When did ABBA come to attention?

Question: Where are demonstrators due to meet?

Question: Name the most famous winners of the contest

Question: Name the contest being held in Moscow?

Question: Where is the contest held?

Question: where  the demonstrations

Question: Where are the demonstrators meeting?

Answer: 1974.

Answer: southwestern

Answer: ABBA,

Answer: Eurovision Song

Answer: Moscow.

Answer: Novopushkinsky Park in central Moscow,

Answer: Novopushkinsky Park in central Moscow,

Summary:
News agency: Police barricade park where demonstrators due to meet .
Arrests come ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest, being held in Moscow Saturday .
Most famous winners of the contest were ABBA, who came to attention in 1974 .
Contest is traditionally taken more seriously in eastern Europe .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Gas will resume flowing "in the next few days," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told reporters following summit talks in Moscow aimed at resolving the ongoing dispute between Ukraine and Russia which has left many parts of Europe without natural gas.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was in Moscow Saturday for talks with Russian leaders.

Medvedev said the summit talks, which also involved Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, had raised a number of "interesting ideas," including loans and extensions of credit aimed at resolving the crisis. But he reiterated that no agreement had been reached.

Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said the meeting highlighted Russian efforts to enlist major European gas companies as a part of an international consortium that would subsidize Ukrainian payments to ensure gas deliveries from Russia.

"Preliminary willingness (to join the consortium) has been stated by Eni, which was the first to do so, then by Ruhrgas, Wingas, Gaz de France, OMV, and Gasterra," Kupriyanov told Russian news agency Interfax.

On Friday, Putin said Ukraine required about $730 million of "technical gas" to resume export deliveries from Russia.

It has now been 11 days since much of Europe was cut off from crucial supplies of Russian natural gas because of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which is in charge of pipelines carrying gas to the continent. The taps remain shut despite a deal signed in Brussels earlier this week.

The European Union has tried to pressure Russia and Ukraine into sorting out the matter, calling into question their reliability as energy suppliers.

Russia has said the dispute is not bilateral.

Tymoshenko said ahead of the trip that her top priority was to resume Russian natural gas transit to Europe in order to protect Ukraine's reputation as a transit country and prevent the empty pipelines from suffering damage as a result of being idle.  Watch how a simple price dispute led to the crisis »

"The government takes full responsibility for resolving the crisis in relations with Russia, which was not initiated by us," Tymoshenko said in a statement on the government's Web site.

The prime minister said she would press for direct relations between Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's state-run gas company Naftogaz and "mutually beneficial prices" for gas and transit.

It was prices and cost that caused the problems in the first place. Russia cut off Ukraine's domestic gas supply at the start of the year, claiming nonpayment of debt, and the two sides failed to agree on the terms for a new contract.

Six days later, in a move each side blamed on the other, Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine were turned off as well.  Watch how Slovakia has been affected by the gas row »

"There is the need to compromise in order to preserve friendly relations between Ukraine and Russia, and to uphold the reputation of both countries in Europe," Tymoshenko said. "I am sure that such compromise will be brokered."

CNN's Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

Question: What was summit aimed at?

Question: What does Medvedev say?

Question: what were the talks

Question: When will the gas begin to flow again?

Question: who hosted the talks

Question: What countries are involved in the dispute?

Question: In what way has the shutdown affected Europe?

Answer: resolving the ongoing dispute between Ukraine and Russia

Answer: aimed at resolving the ongoing dispute between Ukraine and Russia

Answer: summit

Answer: "in the next few days,"

Answer: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

Answer: Ukraine and Russia

Answer: without natural gas.

Summary:
Russian President Medvedev says gas flow to Europe will resume in days .
Medvedev hosted summit talks Saturday aimed at resolving dispute with Ukraine .
Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko also attended talks .
Shutdown has left many European countries without natural gas .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Members of a Russian doomsday cult barricaded themselves in a cave to wait out the end of the world as the cult's leader underwent psychiatric exams Thursday, Russian media reported. The cult, which calls itself the "true Russian Orthodox Church," believes the world will end in May. The cult leader is in police custody awaiting proceedings on charges that he set up an organization "whose activity is associated with violence on citizens and instigation to refuse to perform their civil duties," according to the state-funded Itar-Tass news agency. Four children are among 29 cult members holed up in a ravine in Russia's Penza region, where they apparently dug a cave. One of the children in the cave is 18 months old, reported Itar-Tass. Temperatures in the cave are below 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius), the Russian news agency reported. The cult members have refused law enforcement requests to come out or release the children, and they have threatened to commit suicide if police resort to force, according to Russian state television. The cult, which calls itself the "true Russian Orthodox Church," believes the end of the world will come in May 2008. Prosecutors announced Thursday they are opening criminal proceedings against the cult's leader, Father Pyotr Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov, 43, is "under the supervision of investigators," Olig Troshin, a Penza prosecutor, told Itar-Tass. A law enforcement source in Penza told the Russian news agency Interfax that Kuznetsov "is being examined by psychiatrists." Several clergymen, police officers and agents of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations are outside the cave. "It is obviously some kind of insanity," Mitropolitan Kirill, a high-ranking Russian Orthodox Church official, told Russian television. "It is perhaps even a medical case. A very dangerous phenomena is happening in Russia's religious life." He added, "What we're seeing in Penza right now is a most vivid example of what could happen to a country, to a society, if this society is deprived of proper religious education." E-mail to a friend CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report.

Question: When is the end of the world?

Question: Who faces charges ?

Question: What have the cult members threatened?

Question: Who is holed up in a cave?

Question: Who were holed up in the cave?

Question: What does the cult think is coming in May?

Question: Who believes it will be the end of the world?

Question: Who  threatened to commit suicide if police use force?

Answer: believes the world will end in May.

Answer: The cult leader

Answer: to commit suicide if police resort to force,

Answer: Members of a Russian doomsday cult

Answer: 29 cult members

Answer: end of the world

Answer: Members of a Russian doomsday cult

Answer: cult members

Summary:
Four children, one 18 months old, are among cult members holed up in cave .
Cult leader to face charges he set up a violent organization, news agency reports .
News agency: Cult members have threatened to commit suicide if police use force .
The "true Russian Orthodox Church" believes end of the world is coming in May .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- Russian authorities are investigating the recent killing of a model-turned-bodyguard. Anna Loginova in a photo shoot for the Russian edition of Maxim magazine. Anna Loginova, a 29-year-old former successful model, ran a private security firm of female bodyguards, highly trained in martial arts, demanding high prices to protect Russian billionaires. One notable client was Russian boxer Kostya Tszyu. A carjacker pulled Loginova out of her Porsche Cayenne Sunday in Moscow. Loginova grabbed onto the door handle as the car picked up speed and she was dragged along the street before letting go as the car sped away. "An intruder just threw her out of the car" Russian police stated, "She grabbed the door handle, but when the car picked up speed, she let go." Her fearlessness proved fatal. Loginova died on the scene from serious cranial injuries. The vehicle was later found abandoned in southern Moscow. Luxury car theft is common in Moscow. Loginova told Maxim magazine in a recently taped interview that she fought off a car thief just four months ago. "I stepped out of my car and closed the door when I suddenly saw a young man near me. He grabbed me by the arm in which I was holding the car keys," she was quoted as saying. "By reflex, I used a jiu-jitsu technique. I twisted his arm and hit him on the face with my elbow. The guy obviously was not expecting such a reaction. He fell down on the rear windshield, which gave me enough time to grab my gun. He immediately jumped into his Honda and drove away," Those who knew her said she was never deterred by danger. For many Russians she was a feminine icon, bridging the glamorous world of modeling and the rough underbelly of Russian crime. "I think she was kind and sweet, not like a terminator, not like Sigourney Weaver in 'Aliens'" said Igor Cherski from Maxim magazine "but I feel that she was not afraid of anything, there was no fear in her eyes." E-mail to a friend

Question: Where was she killed?

Question: Was she an icon?

Question: Who was a feminine icon?

Question: Who did Loginova fight off?

Question: What did Loginova tell a magazine recently?

Answer: Moscow.

Answer: For many Russians

Answer: Anna Loginova

Answer: a car thief

Answer: that she fought off a car thief just four months ago.

Summary:
Russian model-turned-bodyguard Anna Loginova killed in Moscow during carjacking .
Loginova recently told a magazine that she fought off a car thief four months ago .
For many Russians she was a feminine icon, bridging glamorous and crime world .


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)  -- The Somali government has asked Russia to intervene against pirates who have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship, the Somali ambassador to Russia said Wednesday. The U.S. Navy released this observance  photo of the MV Faina, which is loaded with weapons and tanks. But the Russian navy issued a statement later in the day saying it had no intention of using force against the pirates, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. "The questions of freeing the ships and crew are being dealt with in line with the corresponding international practices," Interfax quoted Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo as saying. "For understandable reasons, the use of force would be an extreme measure because it could threaten the life of the international crew of the ship." The pirates took over the MV Faina last week off the coast of Somalia and are demanding a $20 million ransom for the ship's cargo of 33 Soviet-made T-72 tanks, tank artillery shells, grenade launchers and small arms. The ship is anchored within Somalia's 12-mile territorial limit. "The government and the president of Somalia are allowing the Russian naval ships to enter our waters, and fight against pirates both in the sea and on the land, that is, if they would have to chase them," Amb. Mohamed Handule said at a news conference in Moscow. "We think that this issue of piracy has exceeded all limits. It is very dangerous that pirates are now laying their hands on arms -- not just for Somalia, not only for the navigating, but for the entire region in general," he added. "Right now, pirates are controlling the sea in this area, but just imagine if they get control of the land too." The announcement raised concern among some officials monitoring the situation.  Watch Russian warships move to confront pirates » "We may have bad news," said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association. Mwangura said some of the Ukrainian crew's family members are concerned for their loved ones' safety and have called him to see if he can communicate with the pirates. He urged negotiations to continue. "For the safety of the crew members," Mwangura said, "let the ship owners talk with the pirates."  Watch Mwangura talk about the rise in pirating » A Russian navy ship sailing toward the Faina is in the Atlantic Ocean and "still has a bit of water to get here," said U.S. Navy Lt. Stephanie Murdock, who is stationed in nearby Bahrain. "There is no estimated time of arrival yet." The U.S. Navy has several ships in the area monitoring the situation. "There have been no changes today," Murdock said. The Navy has not communicated with the Russian ship but will work out coordination when it arrives, Murdock said. The Russian ship Neustrashimy is headed to the region solely to protect Russian shipping, according to the Russian navy spokesman. "The navy command has been stressing that the Neustrashimy, from the Baltic Sea Fleet, has been given the task of arriving in the area of Somalia and guaranteeing for a certain time the safe seafaring of Russian ships in the area with a high risk of pirate attacks. The essence of the mission is to prevent the seizure of Russian ships by pirates," Dygalo said. Handule, the Nigerian ambassador, seemed to criticize the United States for not taking action. "Ships of more than 10 countries are now close to our shores, but we are not satisfied with the results of their activities," he said. Citing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1816, Handule said, "We are inviting all countries, all states who have possibility to support Somalia to fight against ... pirates. We are especially inviting Russia and giving special status to Russian warships to fight, to help Somalia." The latest developments came two days after three pirates were killed when they started shooting at each other, according to Mwangura, the Kenya maritime official. The shootout centered on a disagreement between moderate and radical pirates aboard the ship, Mwangura said. The moderates

Question:
who wants russian to intervene?
who is fed up with inaction?
who captured the mv faina?
what does somalia want

Answer: Somali government

Answer: Somalia

Answer: pirates

Answer: Russia to intervene against pirates

Summary:
NEW: Somalia wants Russian warships to intervene; Russia rules out using force .
Pirates captured Ukrainian MV Faina, loaded with weapons, off Somalia's coast .
Officials fear weapons will get into terrorists' hands .
Ships from 10 countries, including U.S., in region; Somalia fed up with inaction .