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Pop star Madonna is recovering after breaking several bones in a horse-riding accident on her country estate on Tuesday. "I can tell you Madonna is doing well," the singer's spokeswoman said. Madonna suffered three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand in the fall. A gamekeeper said she left her home by helicopter on Wednesday. UK spokeswoman Barbara Charone also said the accident would not delay the release of her new album in November. "Her LP is finished and is on course to come out in November with a single prior," she told the BBC News website. The...

April 7, 2003 A Sinister Past Comes to Light at an Iraqi Post By JIM DWYER ARBALA, Iraq, April 6 — To the Americans who arrived by tank and helicopter and Humvee, this city 45 miles south of Baghdad began to reveal itself today in hints of a sinister past in captured military archives. Inside a bombed military headquarters, soldiers found strips of film negatives showing images of people who appeared to have met violent deaths. The images, shown to a reporter, appeared to document injuries on the bodies of three different people. Scores of other negatives kept in the...