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LONDON (Reuters) - The M1 was totally closed on Wednesday morning after a body was found on the road, bringing chaos to traffic in the Yorkshire area. South Yorkshire police said the motorway was shut in both directions between junctions 36 and 37 near Barnsley after the body was discovered on a slip road at about 4 a.m. "It appears the person may have fallen from a footbridge ... and subsequently been struck by a number of vehicles," a police spokesman said. "Officers are examining the scene ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday no government can meet the demands of kidnappers holding a Briton and three other Western aid workers hostage in Iraq. Norman Kember, 74, from Britain, two Canadians and an American were kidnapped on November 26 in Baghdad where they were working with a Christian peace group. An Iraqi group calling itself the "Swords of Truth" has threatened to kill the hostages unless Iraqi detainees are released by Thursday. The group has accused the four of spy ...

By Luke Baker and Gideon Long BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein refused to enter court on Wednesday, bringing his often chaotic trial to yet another halt until the judge decided to press on without him. After telling the court to "go to hell" the night before, the former president effectively boycotted the fifth session of his trial after spending most of the day in talks with lawyers in a battle of wills with the Kurdish presiding judge. Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin eventually opted to push a ...

By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) - Newly elected opposition leader David Cameron turned politics on its head on Wednesday, offering to help Prime Minister Tony Blair pass laws which many in the ruling Labour party oppose. David Cameron, 39, became the Conservatives' fifth leader in eight years on Tuesday as the party looked to youth to revive it after three election defeats at the hands of Blair. In his debut parliamentary joust with Blair, the relative newcomer confounded tradition, declarin ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will join sailors, community leaders and guests on Wednesday for the 64th anniversary of the assault. The crowd will observe a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. -- the moment the attack began in 1941. A U.S. Navy ship will honor the USS Arizona, which lies submerged in Pearl Harbor with the bodies of hundreds of sailors  ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen attacked Kirkuk General Hospital Wednesday, freeing a wounded suspected insurgent, the city's police chief told CNN. The assault killed three Iraqi police officers and wounded seven others. Gunmen whisked away Yousif Mohammed Khdaier, who is accused of planting bombs and explosives, said police Chief Torhan Abdul Rahman. Khdaier was wounded when police arrested him two weeks ago, the chief said. At least 15 gunmen were involved in the 5 a.m. (9 p.m. Tuesday ET)  ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain cannot meet the demands of kidnappers holding a British man and three other Western aid workers hostage, Foreign Minister Jack Straw said on Wednesday. "We are aware of these so-called demands which no government could meet," Straw told reporters before meeting other EU foreign ministers to discuss the European Union budget. "I am afraid I have nothing further to rep ...

By Paul Taylor and Marie-Louise Moller BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain came under pressure to yield more of its annual rebate from European Union coffers to aid poor new east European members as foreign ministers began talks on the bloc's long-term budget on Wednesday. Ministers from both eastern and western Europe said the British EU presidency would have to improve its 2007-13 budget package, whi ...

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Rap superstar Eminem told a radio show Tuesday that he is back together with his ex-wife and may remarry. Eminem went through an ugly divorce and custody battle over his young daughter with Kimberly Mathers. They married in 1999, and their divorce was finalized in 2001. "We have reconciled and are probably going to remarry," Eminem told Detroit radio station WKQI-FM's  ...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Valerie Bertinelli and her rock star husband, Eddie Van Halen, are divorcing after 24 years of marriage, Bertinelli's publicist confirmed Tuesday. "Yes, that's true. They have been separated for four years and it's amicable," Bertinelli spokeswoman Heidi Schaeffer told The Associated Press. She said the actress would have no further comment. A divorce petition th ...