In Brief

FREED – Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, says one of its senior figures and 14 others have been released from custody.

* SORROW – A schoolgirl cancer patient who was given a massive overdose of radiation has died. In January, Lisa Norris, 16, was given 17 overdoses of radiation therapy during treatment for a brain tumour which left her with severe burns to the back of her neck and head.She died at her home in Ayrshire, Scotland, on Wednesday, surrounded by her family.* DYING OUT – Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife experts say.* MURDER – At least six people were killed and several others wounded after an unknown group of fighters ambushed civilian vehicles near the capital of the semi-autonomous region of southern Sudan, said officials on Thursday.* I’AM GRATEFUL – A British man on death row in Pakistan has thanked Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair for intervening in his case in an interview just before his execution was delayed on Thursday.* SIMILARITY -US President George W Bush has for the first time acknowledged a possible parallel between the raging violence in Iraq and the Vietnam war.Nampa-AFP-AP-Reuters-SapaIn January, Lisa Norris, 16, was given 17 overdoses of radiation therapy during treatment for a brain tumour which left her with severe burns to the back of her neck and head.She died at her home in Ayrshire, Scotland, on Wednesday, surrounded by her family.* DYING OUT – Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife experts say. * MURDER – At least six people were killed and several others wounded after an unknown group of fighters ambushed civilian vehicles near the capital of the semi-autonomous region of southern Sudan, said officials on Thursday.* I’AM GRATEFUL – A British man on death row in Pakistan has thanked Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair for intervening in his case in an interview just before his execution was delayed on Thursday.* SIMILARITY -US President George W Bush has for the first time acknowledged a possible parallel between the raging violence in Iraq and the Vietnam war.Nampa-AFP-AP-Reuters-Sapa