New Yorkers fight infestation with `rat summit'
They gnaw through heavy garbage bags and infest apartments, and finally the rats have driven New Yorkers to quit joking and get serious with a `Rat Summit' at Columbia University.



Barak offers new peace plan, Jerusalem delay
Prime Minister Ehud Barak proposed a peace deal on Thursday that would give Palestinians a state, annex Jewish settlements to Israel and delay negotiations on Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees for up to three years.



Daredevil carried out of ice cell after 2-1/2 days
After spending nearly 62 hours standing in a small cavity inside a six-tonne block of ice, illusionist David Blaine emerged into Times Square shaky and disoriented at the end of an hour-long television special.



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