The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Orsieres, Switzerland - At least 12 people were killed and 15 seriously injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in southwestern Switzerland on Sunday. The bus fell about 250 meters when it slid off a wet road, a spokesman for the regional police said. Near Madaen, Iraq - Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces mounted fresh raids in a town south of Baghdad on Sunday but failed to find any of the Shi'ite hostages reported to have been threatened with death by Sunni guerrillas. A senior Shi'ite official in Baghdad had said up to 150 hostages, including women and children, were seized Friday when rebels entered Madaen. But a police official said there may be as few as three hostages and that the situation was part of a string of tit-for-tat, tribally related abductions. Vatican City - Bringing their suitcases and personal views on the future of the church, the cardinals who must select the next pope took their rooms on Sunday in the Vatican hotel that will be their home until the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics have a new leader. Beijing/Tokyo - China told Japan bluntly Sunday that it had no reason to apologize for weeks of anti-Japanese protests, some violent, in cities across China. The Chinese are furious at a revised Japanese school textbook they say whitewashes atrocities during Japan's 1931-45 occupation of China.
