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George W Bush makes plea to Kim Jong-Il By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 2:52am GMT 07/12/2007 Six years after branding North Korea as part of the "axis of evil", President George W Bush has made an unprecedented personal appeal to Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, to disclose and disable his nuclear programme. The letter, on Dec 1, which the White House described as Mr Bush's first direct communication with Kim, came amid growing concern that Pyongyang will not meet a Dec 31 deadline to reveal all about its nuclear agenda, 15 months after it stunned the world...

A spokesman for the McCann family has refused to comment on allegations they used some of the Madeleine fund to pay their mortgage. The statement comes after the Daily Mail reported that the family’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, confirmed: "part of the donations ... had been used to help with mortgage payments". Mitchell told Sky News the use of the money was in line with the fund's objectives, "to provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine's family". The Find Madeleine Fund has attracted more than £1 million (over $2 million) in public donations, to help find Madeleine McCann. However, use of...

Morocco photo is not Madeleine McCann By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz and Richards Edwards in Zinat, northern Morocco Last Updated: 10:50pm BST 26/09/2007 Kate and Gerry McCann are facing further heartbreak after the mystery girl caught in a photograph in Morocco turned out not be Madeleine, but a local farmer's daughter. The grainy image of a fair-haired girl being carried on the back of a woman bore a startling resemblance to the four-year-old, who went missing in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3. Bushra, the five-year-old Moroccan girl who was mistaken for Madeleine McCann...

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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal — The mother of a British girl who disappeared four months ago in southern Portugal is to be named a formal suspect in the case Friday, a family spokesman said, a shocking twist to a case that has gripped much of Europe. Kate McCann was questioned for almost 11 hours on Thursday, and is due back at a police station in Portimao, a town in Portugal's Algarve region, later Friday morning, family spokesman David Hughes told The Associated Press.

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Mission resident Richard Kemp is used to people stopping and staring at his Madeline. The 53-year-old, in fact, relishes the attention he gets when people ask him about the companion that he has shared his life with for the past 11 years. Of course, this one doesn’t spend money. She just demands it. Lots of it. About $90,000. Madeline is no lady; she’s a tank. A 1944 olive-drab Sherman tank with twin diesel engines that rattle when she starts up. She doesn’t purr like her successors; instead, she lets out loud gurgles and burps — symbolic of an era when...

Greenfield - The alderman who insists upon keeping a mannequin in his City Hall office says he's the victim of a double standard, since the Fire Department keeps a mannequin and the police chief used to have three. The tiff - with its constitutional overtones - has landed Greenfield in the national news and doesn't appear over yet, despite the mayor's recent concession that Madeline - the mannequin - could stay if Ald. Thomas Pietrowski keeps his door shut at all times. Last fall, Mayor Timothy T. Seider asked Pietrowski to remove the mannequin, which is dressed in jeans and...