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The Council has 15 members-- five permanent members and 10 elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms: <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Membership and Presidency of  the Security Council in 2003 Month Presidency Membership Term Ends January France Permanent Member February Germany 31 December 2004 March Guinea 31 December 2003 April Mexico 31 December 2003 May Pakistan 31 December 2004 June Russian Federation Permanent Member July Spain 31 December 2004 August Syrian Arab Republic 31 December 2003 September United Kingdom Permanent Member October United States Permanent Member November Angola 31 December 2004 December Bulgaria 31 December 2003   Cameroon 31 December...

Gore being interviewed (on tape) by Leslie Stahl, announces he will not run for the 2004 democratic presidential nomination.Those of you on the West coast, be sure to see the beginning when Bill Clinton is featured in a teaser for anothe story--the sore on his mouth is frightening!

Women accused of hogging the mirror before a night out can finally silence their critics - they are quicker at getting ready than ever before. It takes an average of 23 minutes for the modern woman to put on her "face", compared with an average of 90 minutes a decade ago. Point of order. It may not take forever, but it certainly feels like forever - Ivan Furthermore, today's men are more patient than their counterparts of the early Nineties, and are prepared to wait for the results of the transformation. The survey of 1,000 men from across the UK,...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A man has been charged with poisoning his ex-girlfriend's lipstick and anti-depressant medication with insecticide. At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Vincent Hall, 36, pleaded innocent to felony charges of poisoning and making threats. An attempted murder charge was dropped, and bail was set at $10,000. Hall faces a maximum of nine years in prison if convicted. The former girlfriend testified that the alleged poisoning attempt came a few days after she and Hall agreed to split up, and that Hall had moved his belongings out of her home by the time she returned from work...