A roundup of today's other world stories in brief:
Camera fails to find missing Utah miners
HUNTINGTON CITY- Rescuers searching for trapped coal miners plan to bore a third hole into a collapsed Utah mine after another attempt to locate them with a camera failed, a city official said yesterday.
Families of the six miners were shown dark, unrevealing images yesterday morning from a camera lowered a second time into the mine, councilwoman Julie Jones said.
"You couldn't see much. Water was trickling in there, it was dark," she said. "They couldn't see any bodies."
There has been no sign of the six missing miners almost a week after the Utah mine shaft they were working in collapsed.
- (Reuters)
Death of US talk show legend
LOS ANGELES- Merv Griffin (82), the former talk show host who became a Hollywood billionaire by investing in real estate and creating the popular game shows Jeopardy!and Wheel of Fortune, died of prostate cancer early yesterday, his family said.
His first success came from singing the 1950 novelty hit I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconutsand he spent 23 years hosting a talk show that bore his name.
- (Reuters)
Biker shot dead on motorway
STRATFORD- A biker shot dead on a busy motorway was gunned down as he rode alongside other weekend traffic, according to police in Warwickshire.
A murder hunt began after the man was shot on the M40 in Warwickshire yesterday after visiting the Bulldog Bash 20 miles away at the Long Marston airfield near Stratford - billed as Europe's number one biker party.
Police could not confirm if the biker - who has not been formally identified but is thought to be in his 30s - was shot until the results of today's postmortem examination are known.
- (PA)
Son tries to sell Pinochet's suits
SANTIAGO- The eldest son of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has put suits owned by his father up for sale in a tailor's shop in central Santiago, Chile's La Terceranewspaper has reported.
The former dictator, who ruled Chile for 17 years from 1973-1990 and died last year, used the suits for everyday chores and personal events, said his son, Augusto Pinochet Hiriart. "My father gave them to me a long time ago . . . None of them were special or emblematic," Pinochet Hiriart said