In Brief

Cuba mourns rebel 'first lady' HAVANA - Cuba held a day of mourning yesterday for Vilma Espin Guillois, the guerrilla who became the most powerful woman in the revolution that propelled her brother-in-law Fidel Castro to power.

Espin died in Havana on Monday aged 77 after a long illness and was

cremated, an official statement read on television said.

It did not name the illness.

 

It called her a 'heroine of the underground, an outstanding

fighter of the rebel army and a tireless struggler for the

emancipation of women and the defence of rights of the child'.

 

* Bomb kills 75 in Baghdad BAGHDAD - A suicide truck bomber

killed 75 people when he rammed his vehicle into a Shi'ite mosque

in Baghdad on yesterday.

 

In the bombing, one witness said the bomber drove his truck into

the Shi'ite Khilani mosque in Baghdad, destroying one of its walls

and wrecking part of the building's interior.

 

The mosque's signature turquoise dome appeared to have suffered

little damage.

 

Police said 75 people had been killed and 130 people

wounded.

 

Rescuers dragged bodies from the mosque while the charred

remains of others could be seen in burned out minibuses around a

nearby traffic circle.

 

* Julia Roberts gives birth to baby boy LOS ANGELES -

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts gave birth on Monday to a baby

boy, her third child with husband Danny Moder, People magazine

reported on its Web site.

 

Roberts and Moder, who are also parents of two-year-old twins,

welcomed Henry Daniel Moder at a Los Angeles hospital, her

spokeswoman told People.

 

Nampa-AFP-Reuters

 

It did not name the illness.It called her a 'heroine of the

underground, an outstanding fighter of the rebel army and a

tireless struggler for the emancipation of women and the defence of

rights of the child'.* Bomb kills 75 in Baghdad BAGHDAD - A suicide

truck bomber killed 75 people when he rammed his vehicle into a

Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on yesterday.In the bombing, one witness

said the bomber drove his truck into the Shi'ite Khilani mosque in

Baghdad, destroying one of its walls and wrecking part of the

building's interior.The mosque's signature turquoise dome appeared

to have suffered little damage.Police said 75 people had been

killed and 130 people wounded.Rescuers dragged bodies from the

mosque while the charred remains of others could be seen in burned

out minibuses around a nearby traffic circle.* Julia Roberts gives

birth to baby boy LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts

gave birth on Monday to a baby boy, her third child with husband

Danny Moder, People magazine reported on its Web site.Roberts and

Moder, who are also parents of two-year-old twins, welcomed Henry

Daniel Moder at a Los Angeles hospital, her spokeswoman told

People.Nampa-AFP-Reuters

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