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SLEEPY PILOTS: Two out of five British airline pilots admit falling asleep at the controls, a survey by their union revealed Monday in London. One tired pilot accidentally strayed into a U.N. no-fly zone over former Yugoslavia and risked being shot down, the British Airline Pilots Association said. In another incident, a jumbo jet captain flying to the Caribbean woke with a start and discovered that his first officer had also fallen asleep.BOMBING: A rebel jet bombed a residential district in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, killing eight people and wounding 15, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A ministry spokesman blamed the opposition Islamic Taleban militia for the two bombs dropped on the central Shahre Nau district, where four houses were destroyed. He said jets belonging to forces loyal to President Burhanuddin Rabbani also bombed Taleban positions at Khurd Kabul village southeast of Kabul, but there were no immediate reports of casualties there.

RELEASED: The Polisario Front has released more than 180 Moroccan prisoners of war, among 2,000 held since fighting ended in the disputed Western Sahara in 1990, a U.N. spokesman said in Rabat, Morocco. The Poli-sario, which represents ethnic Sahrawis opposed to Moroccan rule of the mineral-rich territory, released the prisoners Friday in western Algeria, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday night.

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TORTURE: A teenager told police in Purcell, Okla., that his parents chained, beat and burned him over an eight-week period to try to recover $32,000 in drug money they thought he stole. The 15-year-old boy said he was tortured with an electrical device, burned with an iron and doused with bleach among other things, Newcastle police chief Jim Green said. Creek County sheriff Larry Fugate said the boy had two black eyes, burn marks and other wounds on his body.

SHOOTING: The first question everyone at the baby shower asked after the shooting stopped was: "Where's Victor?" Eight-year-old Victor Neal was struck in the head by a bullet from a drive-by shooting while playing football with other children in the front yard during a shower Saturday night, Compton, Calif., police said. Victor died early Sunday at a hospital. The two gunmen were aiming for three men standing on a sidewalk, said sheriff's deputy Carrie Stewart.

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GREEK PREMIER Andreas Papandreou was admitted to the hospital Monday in Athens, shortly after canceling a meeting of his Socialist party's Parliament members because he was not feeling well. The hospital said the 76-year-old premier was admitted for "breathing difficulties caused by a possible infection of the respiratory system." . . . NIGERIA, facing international condemnation for hanging oil industry critic Ken Saro-Wiwa, is portraying itself as a friend of the environment. The day before OPEC's winter meeting in Vienna, Austria, Nigerian Oil Minister Dan Etete touted a planned $3.8 billion natural gas plant as "an approach to solving the environmental problems in our country."

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