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DEMOLITION: The school gymnasium in Scotland where 16 kindergarten children and their teacher were gunned down last month will be demolished and a temporary flower garden planted in its place. Local authorities said the demolition at the Dunblane Primary School will begin next week. The Stirling Council said no decision has been made whether to build a new gym on another site.RESCUE: The owners of a British cruise liner that began taking on water after striking a reef in the Red Sea were arranging to evacuate 950 passengers Friday. "The passengers are safe and the damage won't sink the ship," said Issam Qawar, director for the Cunard line in the Jordanian port of Aqaba. He said the Royal Viking Sun hit a coral reef in the Strait of Tiran, 95 miles from Aqaba on Thursday night.
EASTER RITUAL: Praying his actions will cure a sick relative, a Japanese man joined at least a dozen Filipinos who were nailed to crosses Friday in rituals re-enacting the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Shinichiro Kaneko screamed as four-inch nails were driven through his palms into the wooden cross, which was then lifted to a vertical position in San Pedro Cutud, Philippines. With a crown of barbed wire on his head, the 30-year-old Kaneko withstood the ordeal under a broiling sun for about two minutes until he was taken down and his hands bandaged.
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STROKE: The morning after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley underwent heart surgery, he suffered a stroke that hampered his ability to move the right side of his body, his doctors said. Bradley, 78, was in serious condition Friday after the stroke at 5 a.m. Thursday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, said Dr. Fred Alexander. Bradley's right side "was not functioning well" immediately after the stroke, Alexander said.
NABBED: Three relatives were arrested in Florida on charges of cheating depositors and defrauding Venezuela's banking system of at least $7 billion, nearly bringing it to collapse. New York prosecutors said the men bilked depositors out of at least $15 million through their bank in Puerto Rico and that some of the deposits went through New York banks. News of the arrests Wednesday in Miami prompted cheering on Venezuela's beaches and dancing in its streets, said Jesus Petit Da Costa, Venezuela's attorney general.
FOUND: A newborn sealed in a plastic bag and dropped into a Phoenix toilet was rescued after an 11-year-old heard him crying and alerted a sheriff's deputy. Deputy Doug Doyle waded through a septic tank beneath a restroom at Canyon Lake Marina in Tonto National Forest Thursday and retrieved the baby. The baby was flown to Maricopa Medical Center, where he was in good condition early Friday.