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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench. Inside, police say, were a 12-carat diamond ring, pearl and emerald jewelry, a Cartier watch and roughly $500 in cash. The contents were worth $1 million. The respiratory therapist didn't think of heading to a pawn shop. He took the bag to police Monday afternoon. The bag is now en route to a Toronto family who had been in Northern California for a wedding. "Every person I know or associate with would have done the same thing," Mr. Suhrhoff, 56, said Tuesday. "I'm glad...

PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century and a founding father of modern photojournalism, has died aged 95, family friends said Wednesday. A founder of the Magnum picture agency in 1947 who admirers dubbed "the eye of the century," Cartier-Bresson died in the south of France Monday, LCI television channel said. The Web site of newspaper Liberation said the photographer, an intensely private man, was buried Wednesday in a quiet family ceremony at Monjustin, in the Provence region. "France has lost a photographer of genius, a true master, one of the most...