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NEW YORK - Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI (news - web sites) agents, a police source told The Associated Press. Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an "emotionally disturbed person," said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity. Police did not charge Skilling with a crime. They took him to New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. Hospital...

School has taken 300 pupils from families granted asylum in EUBy Philip Johnston and Liz Lightfoot (Filed: 22/10/2003) Hundreds of refugees granted asylum in other European Union countries are coming to Britain and enrolling their children in schools. A report published by Ofsted yesterday described how one primary school had taken in 300 pupils in two years from families who had been granted asylum status in another EU country. There have been reports that large numbers of Somalis given asylum in Holland have been settling in Britain under the EU right to move freely between member sates. The Ofsted report...

'Dim' mom has children taken away from her July 25 2003 at 03:30AM Oslo - A Norwegian woman has had her two young daughters taken away by social workers because she scored poorly in an intelligence test. Svanhild Jensen, 24, desperate to get her girls back, is now hoping an improved score in another IQ test will mean she will be reunited with her children, aged one and three. Jensen's tale has provoked outrage in Norway. "She was shocked and humiliated," Jensen's lawyer Anette Lilleengen said on Thursday. "The entire local community support my client. They have seen what a...

If you were assigned to make a fantastical 20-hour, 10-part series about alien encounters, you'd think you'd concoct the freakiest, funkiest extraterrestrials ever conceived. Not so. Not if you're making "Taken," the alien-abduction saga that premieres at 9 tonight on cable's Sci Fi Channel. "Steven said we had to respect the lore," says Jim Lima, the project's visual-effects supervisor. "We had to be faithful to what was said the most by people who had encounters." Steven is Steven Spielberg. He is not only one of the most powerful people in entertainment, but also the man who gave the world "E.T."...

Call it a conspiracy (or savvy marketing), but a new poll released this week says a majority of Americans think the truth about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is out there, yet the government is concealing it from them. That's exactly what a new public Roper poll shows, fueling a fact-hunting investigative group that wants to get to the bottom of high-flying UFOs. This week, calls for the U.S. government to be more forthcoming on what it knows about UFOs increased following the release of the poll results. That RoperASW study, sponsored by the SCI FI Channel, shows that 72% of...

Cannabis poses a greater threat to health than tobacco, lung experts have warned. The warning comes on the day that Home Secretary David Blunkett is due to make a Commons statement about the future of government drug policy. Many young people are simply not aware that smoking cannabis may put them at increased risk of respiratory cancers and infections . Dame Helena Shovelton: The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended that cannabis is downgraded from a class B drug to class C. This would mean that possession would lead to a caution, rather than arrest. The British Lung Foundation is...