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Vatican City - More than a quarter-million people - rich and poor, royal and regular - flooded St. Peter's Square on Sunday for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honouring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those no one else would. Pope John Paul presided over the open-air mass, but for the first time in a major Vatican ceremony, was unable to utter a word of his homily, leaving other prelates to do so. But John Paul did declare Mother Teresa "blessed," moving the woman many called a living saint one step closer to official sainthood. The Vatican estimated Sunday's crowd at 300,000 London - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was admitted to a hospital for checks Sunday after complaining of feeling ill, but later returned home and was feeling "fine," his office said. Bangkok, Thailand - President Bush on Sunday rejected North Korea's demand that the United States sign a formal non-aggression treaty in exchange for nuclear concessions. But he and China's leader held out the possibility they and other nations might offer North Korea some written security assurance. "We have a mutual goal and that is that the (Korean) peninsula be free of nuclear weapons,'' Bush said after a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of a 21-nation Asia-Pacific summit.
