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Saturday, September 15, 2007
German Cleric Criticized for Nazi Phrase
A Roman Catholic cardinal used the term "degenerate" at the opening of an art museum on the ruins of a church, drawing criticism Saturday for employing a phrase strongly linked to the Nazi persecution of artists.
Joachim Meisner, the influential Cardinal of Cologne, warned in a sermon at the opening of a museum built on the ruins of Cologne's St. Kolumba church that it was dangerous to allow art to break away from religion.
"Let us not forget that there is an indisputable connection between culture and religion. Where culture is uncoupled from ... the worship of God, religion becomes moribund in rituals and culture degenerates," Meisner said Friday.
In German the phrase "degenerate art," or "Entartete Kunst," carries deep associations with the Nazis' attempts to ban artworks they deemed did not uphold their ideals. In 1937, they staged an exhibit in Munich called "Entartete Kunst," which included 650 artworks confiscated from museums and considered unacceptable, including many by Expressionist artists.
Germany's main Jewish group said the cardinal's remarks went too far.
"Meisner ... is a notorious spiritual firebrand who tries not just to test the boundaries of what is allowed, but to deliberately overstep them," said Stephan Kramer, a leader in Germany's Central Council of Jews said in a statement.
Meisner was one of three German bishops who made controversial comments comparing the separation barrier in the West Bank to the Berlin Wall. He also recently criticized the taste of a leading artist who designed stained glass windows for Cologne Cathedral.
Theodor Lemper, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and responsible for culture in Cologne, said use of the word "entartete" should be taboo.
"In addition, culture does not grow only out of the worship of God," Lemper was quoted as saying by the Cologne daily Express. "The absolutism preached by Cardinal Meisner is false and inappropriate."
Joachim Meisner, the influential Cardinal of Cologne, warned in a sermon at the opening of a museum built on the ruins of Cologne's St. Kolumba church that it was dangerous to allow art to break away from religion.
"Let us not forget that there is an indisputable connection between culture and religion. Where culture is uncoupled from ... the worship of God, religion becomes moribund in rituals and culture degenerates," Meisner said Friday.
In German the phrase "degenerate art," or "Entartete Kunst," carries deep associations with the Nazis' attempts to ban artworks they deemed did not uphold their ideals. In 1937, they staged an exhibit in Munich called "Entartete Kunst," which included 650 artworks confiscated from museums and considered unacceptable, including many by Expressionist artists.
Germany's main Jewish group said the cardinal's remarks went too far.
"Meisner ... is a notorious spiritual firebrand who tries not just to test the boundaries of what is allowed, but to deliberately overstep them," said Stephan Kramer, a leader in Germany's Central Council of Jews said in a statement.
Meisner was one of three German bishops who made controversial comments comparing the separation barrier in the West Bank to the Berlin Wall. He also recently criticized the taste of a leading artist who designed stained glass windows for Cologne Cathedral.
Theodor Lemper, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and responsible for culture in Cologne, said use of the word "entartete" should be taboo.
"In addition, culture does not grow only out of the worship of God," Lemper was quoted as saying by the Cologne daily Express. "The absolutism preached by Cardinal Meisner is false and inappropriate."
Saturday, September 8, 2007
District CFO Not Leaving for Different Job
WASHINGTON - The District's chief financial officer will stay at his post and not take a job with Amtrak, WTOP Radio has learned.
Natwar Gandhi, who currently makes $186,000 a year, was reportedly offered as much as $275,000 by Amtrak. Gandhi met with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chairman Vincent Gray on Monday and was offered an additional $93,000 to stay with the District.
Gandhi's raise would require a change to the home rule charter. A letter will be sent to the D.C. City Council requesting the charter change.
Fenty tells WTOP he's not taking anything for granted, but confirms he did meet with Gandhi.
Natwar Gandhi, who currently makes $186,000 a year, was reportedly offered as much as $275,000 by Amtrak. Gandhi met with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chairman Vincent Gray on Monday and was offered an additional $93,000 to stay with the District.
Gandhi's raise would require a change to the home rule charter. A letter will be sent to the D.C. City Council requesting the charter change.
Fenty tells WTOP he's not taking anything for granted, but confirms he did meet with Gandhi.
Cop Indicted on Murder, Assault Charges
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A grand jury indicted a local police officer Tuesday on one count of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault related to the shooting of two Marlo delivery men inside his home earlier this year.
Prince George's County Police Corporal Keith Washington faces up to 65 years in jail if convicted on all 12 counts.
The shooting occurred Jan. 24, when 36-year-old Robert White and 22-year-old Brandon Clark arrived at Washington's Accokeek home to exchange a set of bed rails. An altercation ensued, and Washington fired his department-issued gun. White survived; Clark died from his injuries about 10 days later.
Washington, who handled Prince George's County's day-to-day homeland security operations before being put on administrative leave, said he shot the men in self-defense.
White provided a statement after he was released from the hospital that said Washington had fired his gun without provocation.
Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn Ivey says the case could go to trial as early as November. Ivey says "he has a strong case."
Washington also faces assault and handgun charges in a separate incident involving a real estate appraiser. An attorney for the appraiser said Washington pulled out a gun when the appraiser showed up at his home by mistake. The appraiser then went to the right house and called 911.
Prince George's County Police Corporal Keith Washington faces up to 65 years in jail if convicted on all 12 counts.
The shooting occurred Jan. 24, when 36-year-old Robert White and 22-year-old Brandon Clark arrived at Washington's Accokeek home to exchange a set of bed rails. An altercation ensued, and Washington fired his department-issued gun. White survived; Clark died from his injuries about 10 days later.
Washington, who handled Prince George's County's day-to-day homeland security operations before being put on administrative leave, said he shot the men in self-defense.
White provided a statement after he was released from the hospital that said Washington had fired his gun without provocation.
Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn Ivey says the case could go to trial as early as November. Ivey says "he has a strong case."
Washington also faces assault and handgun charges in a separate incident involving a real estate appraiser. An attorney for the appraiser said Washington pulled out a gun when the appraiser showed up at his home by mistake. The appraiser then went to the right house and called 911.
The Meter May Start Running for Cab Riders
WASHINGTON - It has been one of the great debates in Washington: meters or zones? WTOP has learned, it could be both.
The D.C. Taxi Cab Commission is set to vote on its recommendation to the mayor next Tuesday. Several sources tell WTOP the majority of the commissioners are leaning toward recommending a meter system that is based on the current zone fares, rather than time and distance like most cabs across the country.
Yellow Cab, one of the largest cab companies in the city, has already installed the mobile data terminals in 300 of its cabs. According to the company's website, the terminals "can perform accurate fare calculations."
Some on the taxi commission aren't so sure, which is why a public hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday.
In a recent telephone poll by Zogby, two thirds of D.C. residents said they are unhappy with the current zone system.
In a Zogby paper poll of 600 cab drivers, about half said they would prefer a meter system based on the zone fares, a quarter wanted time and distance meters and a quarter said no meters at all.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has until October to choose a fare system or the city will have to switch to time and distance meters due to a provision passed by Congress in the District's budget.
Fenty has said he won't make any decision until after he hears from the taxi commission.
The D.C. Taxi Cab Commission is set to vote on its recommendation to the mayor next Tuesday. Several sources tell WTOP the majority of the commissioners are leaning toward recommending a meter system that is based on the current zone fares, rather than time and distance like most cabs across the country.
Yellow Cab, one of the largest cab companies in the city, has already installed the mobile data terminals in 300 of its cabs. According to the company's website, the terminals "can perform accurate fare calculations."
Some on the taxi commission aren't so sure, which is why a public hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday.
In a recent telephone poll by Zogby, two thirds of D.C. residents said they are unhappy with the current zone system.
In a Zogby paper poll of 600 cab drivers, about half said they would prefer a meter system based on the zone fares, a quarter wanted time and distance meters and a quarter said no meters at all.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has until October to choose a fare system or the city will have to switch to time and distance meters due to a provision passed by Congress in the District's budget.
Fenty has said he won't make any decision until after he hears from the taxi commission.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Bin Laden Urges Americans to Convert
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years in a video Friday released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end.
The 30-minute video was obtained by the SITE Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors terror messages. American officials said the U.S. government had obtained a copy earlier and intelligence agencies were studying the video to determine whether it was authentic.
In the video, which was broadcast to the Arab world by Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden sits as he talks, wearing a white robe and turban and beige cloak seated behind a table while reading an address to the American people from papers in front of him.
His trimmed beard is shorter than in his last video, in 2004, and is fully black _ apparently dyed, since in past videos it was mostly gray. He speaks softly, as he usually does, and has dark bags under his eyes but appears healthy.
The footage gives a rare look at the al-Qaida leader, who has likely avoided appearing in videos as a security measure. His emergence comes at a time when terrorism experts believe his terror network is regrouping in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.
Bin Laden makes no overt threats and does not directly call for attacks, according to the transcript, which was first posted on ABC's Web site.
Instead, he addresses Americans, lecturing them on the failures of their leaders to stop the war in Iraq despite growing public opposition in the U.S.
"There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out," bin Laden said.
"The second solution is from your side," he said. "I invite you to embrace Islam."
"It will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and have begun to look for an alternative, and this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam," he said.
He derides President Bush, saying the American leader is backing Shiites against Sunnis in Iraq. But, bin Laden said, events in Iraq have gotten "out of control" and Bush is "like the one who plows and sows the sea: He harvests nothing but failure."
Bin Laden said the prestige of mujahedeen _ Islamic holy warriors _ has "grown globally" while America has been "bled dry economically."
The 30-minute video was obtained by the SITE Institute, a Washington-based group that monitors terror messages. American officials said the U.S. government had obtained a copy earlier and intelligence agencies were studying the video to determine whether it was authentic.
In the video, which was broadcast to the Arab world by Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden sits as he talks, wearing a white robe and turban and beige cloak seated behind a table while reading an address to the American people from papers in front of him.
His trimmed beard is shorter than in his last video, in 2004, and is fully black _ apparently dyed, since in past videos it was mostly gray. He speaks softly, as he usually does, and has dark bags under his eyes but appears healthy.
The footage gives a rare look at the al-Qaida leader, who has likely avoided appearing in videos as a security measure. His emergence comes at a time when terrorism experts believe his terror network is regrouping in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.
Bin Laden makes no overt threats and does not directly call for attacks, according to the transcript, which was first posted on ABC's Web site.
Instead, he addresses Americans, lecturing them on the failures of their leaders to stop the war in Iraq despite growing public opposition in the U.S.
"There are two solutions to stopping it. One is from our side, and it is to escalate the fighting and killing against you. This is our duty, and our brothers are carrying it out," bin Laden said.
"The second solution is from your side," he said. "I invite you to embrace Islam."
"It will also achieve your desire to stop the war as a consequence, because as soon as the warmongering owners of the major corporations realize that you have lost confidence in your democratic system and have begun to look for an alternative, and this alternative is Islam, they will run after you to please you and achieve what you want to steer you away from Islam," he said.
He derides President Bush, saying the American leader is backing Shiites against Sunnis in Iraq. But, bin Laden said, events in Iraq have gotten "out of control" and Bush is "like the one who plows and sows the sea: He harvests nothing but failure."
Bin Laden said the prestige of mujahedeen _ Islamic holy warriors _ has "grown globally" while America has been "bled dry economically."
Madeleine McCann Case Chronology
(AP) - Chronology of key events in the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann.
May 3: The child is reported missing from a holiday apartment in the town of Praia da Luz in the Algarve resort region. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, left her asleep with two smaller siblings while they had dinner at a nearby restaurant, and said they checked frequently on the children. They say Madeleine was kidnapped.
May 6: Police say there is evidence the girl was abducted, and appeal for her return.
May 11: David Beckham and other soccer stars appeal for Madeleine's safe return. Police in Portugal scale down local searches, saying the case has become an international investigation.
May 12: Madeleine McCann turns 4.
May 13: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling pledges a contribution to a $3 million reward for the safe return of the child.
May 13: Robert Murat, a Briton who lives near the complex where the child vanished, is questioned after British journalists report him to police, saying he was poking around the crime scene and implying that he was part of the investigation.
May 18: A Web site set up to help find Madeleine receives some 65 million visitors in 48 hours.
May 30: The McCanns meet at the Vatican with Pope Benedict to discuss their ordeal. The pontiff pledges to pray for her safe return.
July 10: Murat is questioned by police in the company of his lawyer, and again the next day. He insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance.
Aug. 3: Authorities in Belgium say they are taking seriously a reported sighting of the child in the town of Tongeren. Police issue a drawing of a Dutch-speaking man reportedly seen with the girl and an English-speaking woman at a table outside a pub. Authorities eventually carry out DNA tests on a milkshake bottle from the pub, but no DNA from the child is found on it.
Aug. 7: Portuguese media report that sniffer dogs found traces of blood in the hotel room where Madeleine went missing. This forensic evidence is sent to Britain for testing.
Aug. 11: Police say new evidence prompts them to consider the possibility the girl is dead.
Sept. 7: Kate McCann is called in for questioning by police, and a family spokesman says she is considered a suspect. Mrs. McCann is questioned for more than four hours and leaves the police station without being charged.
May 3: The child is reported missing from a holiday apartment in the town of Praia da Luz in the Algarve resort region. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, left her asleep with two smaller siblings while they had dinner at a nearby restaurant, and said they checked frequently on the children. They say Madeleine was kidnapped.
May 6: Police say there is evidence the girl was abducted, and appeal for her return.
May 11: David Beckham and other soccer stars appeal for Madeleine's safe return. Police in Portugal scale down local searches, saying the case has become an international investigation.
May 12: Madeleine McCann turns 4.
May 13: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling pledges a contribution to a $3 million reward for the safe return of the child.
May 13: Robert Murat, a Briton who lives near the complex where the child vanished, is questioned after British journalists report him to police, saying he was poking around the crime scene and implying that he was part of the investigation.
May 18: A Web site set up to help find Madeleine receives some 65 million visitors in 48 hours.
May 30: The McCanns meet at the Vatican with Pope Benedict to discuss their ordeal. The pontiff pledges to pray for her safe return.
July 10: Murat is questioned by police in the company of his lawyer, and again the next day. He insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance.
Aug. 3: Authorities in Belgium say they are taking seriously a reported sighting of the child in the town of Tongeren. Police issue a drawing of a Dutch-speaking man reportedly seen with the girl and an English-speaking woman at a table outside a pub. Authorities eventually carry out DNA tests on a milkshake bottle from the pub, but no DNA from the child is found on it.
Aug. 7: Portuguese media report that sniffer dogs found traces of blood in the hotel room where Madeleine went missing. This forensic evidence is sent to Britain for testing.
Aug. 11: Police say new evidence prompts them to consider the possibility the girl is dead.
Sept. 7: Kate McCann is called in for questioning by police, and a family spokesman says she is considered a suspect. Mrs. McCann is questioned for more than four hours and leaves the police station without being charged.
Nagorno-Karabakh President Inaugurated
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - The former security chief of Nagorno-Karabakh was sworn in Friday as the new president of the Armenian-controlled breakaway region.
Bako Saakian, who took 85 percent of the vote in July, headed Nagorno-Karabakh's security service since 2001 until he resigned to run for president.
Saakian pledged to push for full independence of the mountainous territory inside Azerbaijan, which has run its own affairs without international recognition since driving out Azerbaijani forces in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijan has rejected the vote as illegitimate and maintained that Armenian separatists came to power in the former autonomous region as a result of ethnic cleansing.
"The so-called inauguration is nothing but a buffoonery," said Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibrahim. "Such actions and their consequences have no legal meaning. Nagorno-Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan."
Armenia's President Robert Kocharian and other senior Armenian officials and lawmakers attended the inauguration ceremony in the regional capital, Stepanakert. Delegations from Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia also attended.
The July vote was the fourth presidential election in the impoverished territory that has been controlled by Armenian and ethnic Armenian forces since a shaky 1994 cease-fire ended one of the bloodiest conflicts that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The six-year war killed 30,000 people and drove more than 1 million from their homes, including many of the region's ethnic Azeris. Today, it remains one of the region's "frozen" conflicts in the former Soviet states.
Azerbaijan and Armenia remain locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh despite more than a decade of coaxing from international mediators led by the United States, Russia and France to resolve the region's status.
Speaking at the inauguration, Saakian said Azerbaijan must accept Nagorno-Karabakh representatives at talks.
"We hope that our opponents will sooner or later come to understanding that there is no alternative to talks with full-fledged participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic," Saakian said.
The mostly agricultural region of 146,000 people tied to Armenia by swaths of Azerbaijani territory also under ethnic Armenian control has faced a steady brain drain and dire economic problems despite financial aid from Armenia and its diaspora.
Saakian ran as an independent and replaces Arkady Gukasian, who served two five-year terms.
Bako Saakian, who took 85 percent of the vote in July, headed Nagorno-Karabakh's security service since 2001 until he resigned to run for president.
Saakian pledged to push for full independence of the mountainous territory inside Azerbaijan, which has run its own affairs without international recognition since driving out Azerbaijani forces in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijan has rejected the vote as illegitimate and maintained that Armenian separatists came to power in the former autonomous region as a result of ethnic cleansing.
"The so-called inauguration is nothing but a buffoonery," said Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibrahim. "Such actions and their consequences have no legal meaning. Nagorno-Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan."
Armenia's President Robert Kocharian and other senior Armenian officials and lawmakers attended the inauguration ceremony in the regional capital, Stepanakert. Delegations from Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia also attended.
The July vote was the fourth presidential election in the impoverished territory that has been controlled by Armenian and ethnic Armenian forces since a shaky 1994 cease-fire ended one of the bloodiest conflicts that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The six-year war killed 30,000 people and drove more than 1 million from their homes, including many of the region's ethnic Azeris. Today, it remains one of the region's "frozen" conflicts in the former Soviet states.
Azerbaijan and Armenia remain locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh despite more than a decade of coaxing from international mediators led by the United States, Russia and France to resolve the region's status.
Speaking at the inauguration, Saakian said Azerbaijan must accept Nagorno-Karabakh representatives at talks.
"We hope that our opponents will sooner or later come to understanding that there is no alternative to talks with full-fledged participation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic," Saakian said.
The mostly agricultural region of 146,000 people tied to Armenia by swaths of Azerbaijani territory also under ethnic Armenian control has faced a steady brain drain and dire economic problems despite financial aid from Armenia and its diaspora.
Saakian ran as an independent and replaces Arkady Gukasian, who served two five-year terms.
Throngs Mourn Pavarotti in His Hometown
By COLLEEN BARRY and TRISHA THOMAS
Associated Press Writers
MODENA, Italy (AP) - Throngs of mourners filed through Modena's cathedral Friday for a last glimpse of Luciano Pavarotti in an outpouring of love for the tenor celebrated as the greatest Italian voice of his generation.
President Giorgio Napolitano joined the crowds viewing Pavarotti's open white coffin _ as many as 2,000 an hour _ to bid farewell to the city's most famous son on the eve of his funeral.
"Luciano Pavarotti did honor to Italy. Italy honors Luciano Pavarotti," Napolitano said as he left the 12th century cathedral.
More than 20,000 people had paid their respects since Thursday evening, when the public was allowed in just hours after the tenor's death at age 71 following a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer.
The coffin was surrounded by flowers, and he was dressed in a black tuxedo with a white tie and shirt _ his hands holding the trademark white handkerchief and a rosary. A red veil with an embroidered treble clef was draped from the coffin near his feet.
A child's drawing bearing the name of his 4-year-old daughter, Alice, was placed in a vase of roses near his head.
The mood in the piazza outside was more warm than tearful, and most of the mourners were Modenese themselves, paying tribute to the imposing singer who made their city of 180,000 on the Po River famous worldwide.
The owner of a nearby record store said all of Pavarotti's recordings and DVDs had sold out. "The demand has been huge," said Alessandro Tacconi.
A childhood friend recalled his school days with "Big Luciano" and the tenor's love of soccer _ later matched by his passion for horses.
"When we played soccer, passing him was not easy. He was really big and really strong, but he always played very carefully and with respect, especially for those smaller than him," Giancarlo Pellacani said.
City officials scheduled the cathedral to stay open until midnight, to accommodate his many fans, and then reopen Saturday before his funeral that will draw dignitaries and fellow artists.
Only family and invited guests will be permitted inside the Romanesque cathedral that can hold up to 3,000 people, but the service will be televised live in Italy and shown on large screens in the piazza outside and elsewhere in the city.
Among those expected to come are former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and U2 lead singer Bono, Italian news agencies reported. Stephane Lissner, general manager of Milan's La Scala Opera House, where Pavarotti appeared 140 times, and the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager Joe Volpe, also were to attend.
Bulgarian-born soprano Raina Kabaivanska, who has appeared with Pavarotti, and tenor Andrea Bocelli will be among those singing at the service, Modena's city hall said. Bocelli was expected to sing the hymn "Panis Angelicus" at the service, which Pavarotti himself performed at the same cathedral in 1978 in a memorable duet with his father, Fernando.
Associated Press Writers
MODENA, Italy (AP) - Throngs of mourners filed through Modena's cathedral Friday for a last glimpse of Luciano Pavarotti in an outpouring of love for the tenor celebrated as the greatest Italian voice of his generation.
President Giorgio Napolitano joined the crowds viewing Pavarotti's open white coffin _ as many as 2,000 an hour _ to bid farewell to the city's most famous son on the eve of his funeral.
"Luciano Pavarotti did honor to Italy. Italy honors Luciano Pavarotti," Napolitano said as he left the 12th century cathedral.
More than 20,000 people had paid their respects since Thursday evening, when the public was allowed in just hours after the tenor's death at age 71 following a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer.
The coffin was surrounded by flowers, and he was dressed in a black tuxedo with a white tie and shirt _ his hands holding the trademark white handkerchief and a rosary. A red veil with an embroidered treble clef was draped from the coffin near his feet.
A child's drawing bearing the name of his 4-year-old daughter, Alice, was placed in a vase of roses near his head.
The mood in the piazza outside was more warm than tearful, and most of the mourners were Modenese themselves, paying tribute to the imposing singer who made their city of 180,000 on the Po River famous worldwide.
The owner of a nearby record store said all of Pavarotti's recordings and DVDs had sold out. "The demand has been huge," said Alessandro Tacconi.
A childhood friend recalled his school days with "Big Luciano" and the tenor's love of soccer _ later matched by his passion for horses.
"When we played soccer, passing him was not easy. He was really big and really strong, but he always played very carefully and with respect, especially for those smaller than him," Giancarlo Pellacani said.
City officials scheduled the cathedral to stay open until midnight, to accommodate his many fans, and then reopen Saturday before his funeral that will draw dignitaries and fellow artists.
Only family and invited guests will be permitted inside the Romanesque cathedral that can hold up to 3,000 people, but the service will be televised live in Italy and shown on large screens in the piazza outside and elsewhere in the city.
Among those expected to come are former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and U2 lead singer Bono, Italian news agencies reported. Stephane Lissner, general manager of Milan's La Scala Opera House, where Pavarotti appeared 140 times, and the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager Joe Volpe, also were to attend.
Bulgarian-born soprano Raina Kabaivanska, who has appeared with Pavarotti, and tenor Andrea Bocelli will be among those singing at the service, Modena's city hall said. Bocelli was expected to sing the hymn "Panis Angelicus" at the service, which Pavarotti himself performed at the same cathedral in 1978 in a memorable duet with his father, Fernando.
Missing Girl's Mother Named Suspect
PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal (AP) - In a shocking twist, the mother of a 4-year-old British girl missing since May was named a suspect and called in for questioning Friday by police along with the child's father, after traces of blood were found in their rental car.
The girl's aunt said police suggested Madeleine McCann might have been killed accidentally and offered the mother a plea deal if she confessed.
Kate McCann was questioned for more than four hours in a second straight day of interrogation into the disappearance of Madeleine in southern Portugal.
Her husband, Gerry McCann, followed her into the police station in the southern Portuguese town of Portimao for a separate round of questioning. Friends and relatives said the mother told them she had been named a formal suspect and was offered a deal if she confessed, and that Gerry McCann was told he would likely also be named a suspect.
"They tried to get her to confess to having accidentally killed Madeleine by offering her a deal through her lawyer _ 'If you say you killed Madeleine by accident and then hid her and disposed of the body, then we can guarantee you a two-year jail sentence or even less,'" Gerry McCann's sister, Philomena, told ITV news.
A police spokesman, Olegario Sousa, confirmed to The Associated Press that police had named a new suspect, but would not say it was Mrs. McCann. He cited privacy laws in declining to comment further.
The couple strenuously professed their innocence Friday.
The day's developments marked a dramatic turn in a case that has pulled at the world's heartstrings for months, ever since Mrs. McCann ran screaming from a hotel room saying her daughter had disappeared. The McCanns, both doctors from central England, said they were dining at the time in a hotel restaurant, but returned frequently to check on Madeleine and her twin 2-year-old siblings.
Since then, the McCanns have toured Europe with photos of Madeleine and the child's stuffed animals and clothing, even meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. Celebrities including J.K. Rowling and David Beckham made public appeals that helped the family raise more than $2 million.
The money, controlled by an independent auditor, is meant for charities that aid in missing children cases.
Until Friday, suspicion had focused on a British man who lived near the hotel from which Madeleine disappeared and who was the only formal suspect. But police said new forensic tests done on evidence gathered months after the girl vanished found traces of blood in the couple's car, according to Justine McGuinness, a spokeswoman for the family.
The new evidence _ including the traces of blood missed in earlier forensic tests _ was uncovered by sniffer dogs brought from Britain.
The girl's aunt said police suggested Madeleine McCann might have been killed accidentally and offered the mother a plea deal if she confessed.
Kate McCann was questioned for more than four hours in a second straight day of interrogation into the disappearance of Madeleine in southern Portugal.
Her husband, Gerry McCann, followed her into the police station in the southern Portuguese town of Portimao for a separate round of questioning. Friends and relatives said the mother told them she had been named a formal suspect and was offered a deal if she confessed, and that Gerry McCann was told he would likely also be named a suspect.
"They tried to get her to confess to having accidentally killed Madeleine by offering her a deal through her lawyer _ 'If you say you killed Madeleine by accident and then hid her and disposed of the body, then we can guarantee you a two-year jail sentence or even less,'" Gerry McCann's sister, Philomena, told ITV news.
A police spokesman, Olegario Sousa, confirmed to The Associated Press that police had named a new suspect, but would not say it was Mrs. McCann. He cited privacy laws in declining to comment further.
The couple strenuously professed their innocence Friday.
The day's developments marked a dramatic turn in a case that has pulled at the world's heartstrings for months, ever since Mrs. McCann ran screaming from a hotel room saying her daughter had disappeared. The McCanns, both doctors from central England, said they were dining at the time in a hotel restaurant, but returned frequently to check on Madeleine and her twin 2-year-old siblings.
Since then, the McCanns have toured Europe with photos of Madeleine and the child's stuffed animals and clothing, even meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. Celebrities including J.K. Rowling and David Beckham made public appeals that helped the family raise more than $2 million.
The money, controlled by an independent auditor, is meant for charities that aid in missing children cases.
Until Friday, suspicion had focused on a British man who lived near the hotel from which Madeleine disappeared and who was the only formal suspect. But police said new forensic tests done on evidence gathered months after the girl vanished found traces of blood in the couple's car, according to Justine McGuinness, a spokeswoman for the family.
The new evidence _ including the traces of blood missed in earlier forensic tests _ was uncovered by sniffer dogs brought from Britain.
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