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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Tests showed activity in both sides of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's brain, but he remains comatose 10 days after suffering a massive stroke that resulted in brain hemorrhaging, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. The 77-year-old is in serious condition at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and all his vital signs are stable, including his breathing, pulse, blood pressure and body temperature, Yael Bosen Levy told CNN. Sharon underwent 13 hours of surgery to reduce t ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) -- Snowflakes laced with fine, gray ash fell on communities south of Anchorage as a series of volcanic eruptions continued early Saturday on an uninhabited island dozens of miles away. Plumes of ash from the volcano drifted across Cook Inlet and into Homer, 75 miles to the east, halting air travel and closing schools in some Kenai Peninsula communities Friday. The 4,134-foot Augustine Volcano began erupting Wednesday after a 20-year lull. By Saturday morning, it had erupted ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's war crimes trial plans to hand in his resignation as presiding judge on Sunday morning, a high-ranking Iraqi High Tribunal official told CNN. Rizgar Amin wants to remain a judge with the tribunal, according to the official, who did not say why Amin wants to step down as presiding judge. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a member of the defense team, has criticized the lack of protection for the Iraqi attorneys and their famili ...

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85. Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, her publicist Dale Olson said. She was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. The actress sustained her long career by repeatedly reinven ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) -- Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their vehicles with stronger armor and thermal detection cameras. The upgrades are being done by individual soldiers and units as the Pentagon decides how Humvees should be changed, and follow public criticism of the Bush administration for not armoring all Humvees ahead of the war. Nearly three years af ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of school girls queued for hours on Saturday in the hope they would be the one chosen to star in the new Harry Potter film. Girls aged between 13 to 16 years old were asked to audition for the part of Luna Lovegood, one of the teen wizard's school mates at Hogwarts. Casting director Fiona said no previous acting experience was necessary. The first appearance of the blonde-haired Lovegood appears in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Described as having a ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A British journalist kidnapped in Iraq last month revealed details on Saturday of how he was captured and then freed during a chance raid by U.S. forces. Freelance reporter Phil Sands was held for five days by gunmen who abducted him on December 26, a spokesman for the British embassy confirmed. His kidnapping had not been reported until now. In an interview with the San Fra ...

(CNN) -- A person who was admitted to a Brussels hospital with flu symptoms after returning from areas in Turkey affected by bird flu has tested negative for the virus, according to a Belgian government official. Inge Jorris, Belgium Health Ministry spokeswoman, said Saturday the patient's initial lab tests at the Scientific Institute of Public Health in Brussels excluded the possibility of H5 bird flu. More test results are expected on Sunday. The person's gender and nationality were not rel ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A reputed mob boss charged along with 13 others with plotting several organized crime murders was taken into custody Friday after nine months on the run, the FBI said. Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, 76, was caught in suburban Elmwood Park and was expected to spend the night in a Chicago jail, said FBI spokesman Ross Rice. Lombardo's lawyer said his client will appear at a detention hearing Tuesday. "Osama bin Laden has a better chance of getting bond," said Rick Halprin ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Saturday asked the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Samuel Alito, who underwent a five-day confirmation hearing this week, to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. "During this week's hearings and over the course of his career, Judge Alito has demonstrated that he is eminently qualified to serve on our nation's highest court," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Now the Senate has a duty to give Judge Alito a prompt up-or-down vote." During  ...