VALLEYGRANDE: A Cuban scientist leading a team exhuming a mass grave in a remote Bolivian village has said he believed he had found the remains of legendary Leftist guerrilla, Ernesto `Che' Guevara.

``I have the personal conviction. There are serious signs that this is Che,'' Jorge Gonzalez said. One of seven skeletons found in the mass grave by team of Cuban and Argentine scientists has a skull matching Che's heavy facial features and its hands are missing, he said. The Bolivian troops who executed Che in October 1967 cut off his hands as proof they had killed him before burying him in a secret location.

Mir operations THE battered Mir space station successfully docked today with a cargo ship hauling more than two tonnes of badly needed supplies, including custom-made parts required to bring the spacecraft back to full power.

After eleven years in space, Mir has now docked with 78 cargo ships, and it's normally a routine affair. But today's rendezvous attracted special attention. A collision during a practice docking attempt with the previous cargo ship poked a hole in Mir's spektr module on June 25.

Nursing to death

LYON: A French woman has been arrested after admitting trying to kill her sick husband by feeding him rat poison over several weeks because she could no longer bear to nurse him, police said. The woman, whose husband is suffering from Parkinson's disease, said that over the past month she gave him small doses of the rat-killer by mixing it with his medicine telling him it was a homeopathic drug.

The unsuspecting husband discovered his wife's murderous ploy when his doctor, surprised at some of his patient's symptoms, ordered a blood test.

`Dead aliens'

WASHINGTON: The believers in `dead aliens' gathered on the 50th anniversary in Roswell, New Mexico to honour their arrival on earth despite statements by the US Air Force that they were dummies meant for experiment. People gathered on a ranch where according to the belief, UFO (unidentified flying object or flying saucer) brought aliens from another planet, though `they' did not survive the landing. It was profitable for the ranch, as hundreds paid 15 dollars each for a tour of the spot where the `dead' aliens were found.

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