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This week's top international News:

** Good Grief! "Peanuts" museum gets go-ahead **
Charles Schulz, the 77-year-old creator of the beloved ``Peanuts'' comic
strip, has secured final go-ahead to build a museum as a permanent home for
Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the gang


** Annie Leibovitz 'Women' Show Opens In Washington **
Annie Leibovitz, known for her eye-catching photographs of celebrities,
unveiled an exhibit focusing on American women, from Alabama coal miners to
Vegas showgirls to Hillary Rodham Clinton


** Experts Lock Horns Over Icy Siberian Mammoth **
Foreign and Russian fossil experts locked horns Tuesday over a spectacular
find -- a block of ice holding frozen remains of a 23,000-year-old woolly
mammoth


** French 1855 photo of wave sets world record price **
A 19th century photograph of a wave by one of the world's earliest
photographers became the most expensive snap ever sold at auction on
Wednesday when it fetched 507,500 pounds ($837,400),


** Belgians Honour American Indians **
With Washington's National Museum of the American Indian not due to open its
doors until 2002, Belgium's capital is currently one of the world's best
places to discover the treasures of native North American culture.


** Museum of Europe aims to boost EU identity **
The European Union may have a single currency and a single market, but it
does not yet have a common sense of identity, despite more than 1,000 years
of entangled history.


** Witch Exhibition Reveals Dutch Past **
The De Stratemakerstoren Museum, tucked away in the turret of a 16th century
garrison, is conjuring up images of a dark era for the Dutch: the executions
of scores of alleged witches in the 1400s and 1500s, many of them guilty of
nothing more than eccentricity

** Amsterdam Museum Hit by Criticism **
Art and automobiles are on a collision course at one of Amsterdam's most
prestigious museums


** Ghost Stories Reports from real-life haunted houses **
The Hull House was built in 1856 in Chicago as a shelter for immigrants. Now
a museum, the first reported paranormal activity was experienced in the
early 1900s in the form of the Devil Baby


** Pharaohs left behind a radioactive curse **
Forget fatal fungi and diabolical booby traps. Some of Egypt's ancient
monuments harbour a more insidious threat--they contain high levels of the
radioactive gas radon. .
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** Archeologists Dig Up Roman Chariot **
Archaeologists sifting through ruins that yielded a Roman catapult 15 years
ago have seen their patience rewarded again, this time unearthing the wheels
of a chariot


** Australian Painter Tucker Dead At 84 **
Painter Albert Tucker, hailed as one of Australia's most influential 20th
century artists, has died of heart disease, a close friend said Sunday.
Tucker was 84 .


** Halloween seen as threat to sacred Mexican holiday **
Like their U.S. counterparts, children in Mexico find Halloween
irresistible. What could be better than a holiday in which it is OK to dress
up in a costume, collect free candy, and skip church?


** Send us your Laundry ** an unusual Queensland request !
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