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Santa Maria, Calif. - A former maid for Michael Jackson told jurors on Tuesday that he regularly shared his bed with "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin and another boy Ð whom she once discovered showering with the pop star. The housekeeper, whose son testified on Monday that Jackson fondled him three times, offered a rare glimpse into life at Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch, telling of his sleepovers with boys. Baghdad - Parliament elected veteran Kurdishleader Jalal Talabani as Iraq's president on Wednesday, breaking a two-month political impasse and paving the way for anew government more than nine weeks after elections. Talabani is the first Kurd to be Iraq's president Ð andthe first non-Arab president of any Arab state Ð a sign of thenew clout of the Kurdish minority that backed the U.S.-ledinvasion. Islamabad - Pakistan Wednesday condemned a terrorist attack on a complex in Jammu and Kashmir housing passengers set to take the Kashmir bus service, and said there would be no changes in the inaugural run by the bus. Chicago - Matthew Hale, the avowed white supremacist convicted of hiring an FBI informant to kill a federal judge, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison following a rambling, two-hour speech in which he claimed he was the victim and even recited part of the Star Spangled Banner.
