LISTER, British Columbia — Fluorescent lights cast a yellow-green pall on the posted student artwork. Children’s voices recite lessons behind closed doors. A group of seventh-grade girls giggle and whisper as they wander back to class.- 12:15 AM
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia —An exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist was unveiled Monday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened the collection of late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his widow Galina Vishnevskaya at a majestic imperial-era palace near St. Petersburg.- 1:49 AM
BAGHDAD — The mission was to get Simba al-Tikriti out of Iraq and to a new life in Britain. First, a roadside bomb nearly wiped out the taxi heading to the border with Kuwait. The next step was to hide under tarps in the back of a truck. More hardship awaited: six months caged by authorities in England.- 12:13 AM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car.- 1:47 AM
BEIJING — In little more than 100 days, China will open its arms to a deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised to find a dizzying array of designer boutiques and painfully hip martini bars that divert expatriates and middle-class Chinese in this once dowdy capital.- 12:22 AM
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