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Nation & World
BBC apologizes for exposing Bush
President Bush's address at the start of the war was seen nationwide.
But TV viewers in Britain and around the world got to see even more- and now a British broadcaster is apologizing.
BBC World showed as much as a minute of Bush having his hair styled and makeup applied just before he went on television.
A BBC spokesman said technicians put the video on air accidentally, and then had trouble switching away from it. He said they switched away as soon as they could.
He says the BBC is "very sorry," and the network will not use the footage again.
Chinese police find baby girls in suitcases
Twenty-eight baby girls were found hidden in suitcases aboard a long-distance bus in southern China, apparently being smuggled for sale, a police officer and a newspaper said Saturday.
Officers acting on a tip made the discovery Monday when the bus stopped in Binyang, a town in the Guangxi region, the Beijing Morning News said. Guangxi, on China's southern coast west of Hong Kong, is one of the country's poorest areas.
An officer of the Guangxi traffic police in Binyang confirmed the discovery of the babies.
Chinese authorities say an unknown number of children are abducted every year for sale to childless families. Older girls are sometimes sold as brides in rural areas with fewer women.
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