critically ill
patients. But investigators claim that not all the victims were terminally ill. Officials believe that the hospital workers could have given the patients a poison brought from neighbouring Brazil. One theory that the police are reportedly investigating is that the nurses could have been working independently from each other as the methods used
vary from
patient to patient.
The Cuban
dissident
group Ladies in White says the authorities have detained their spokeswoman Bertha Soler and more than 30 other members. They were stopped by police when they were going to take part in a regular Sunday silent parade to demand the release of political prisoners. The group, formed nine years ago, said the Cuban authorities had increased pressure on them and other dissidents in the last few weeks, detaining them for short periods, threatening them and harassing them.
Tens of thousands of grieving Coptic Christians are taking part in a second night of vigils in Egypt following the death on Saturday of their leader Pope Shenouda. Jon Leyne reports.
Inside St Mark's Coptic Cathedral, they gather to pay their respects. For the next three days, the body of Pope Shenouda III will not
lie in state
, but rather sit in the
papal
throne in full ceremonial robes. Over four turbulent decades, Pope Shenouda has presided over the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Coptic Christians saw him as a protector and a