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www.pantagraph.com Pantagraph Sunday March 4, 2007 A3 OUR NATIONKWORLD Keeping you up to date on the news World watch Your guide to the top headlines from the United States and around the world. Arctic Ocean "12 North America Asia 2 Towns hit by tornado hope for recovery ENTERPRISE, Ala. Students fought back tears Saturday at Enterprise High School, where President Bush mourned eight of their class'mates killed when a tornado ripped their school, leaving tattered math textbooks strewn amid the rubble. "Out of the devastation can come hope and a better tomorrow," Bush said, standing with his arm around a student who had a tear running down her face. "Our thoughts, of course, go out to the students who perished.

We thank God for the hundreds who lived." Full story, photo on Page A7 Europe. if i Ocean -J Africa1-" Indian i i13 v3 Atlantic 1 8 vr V. i Pacific Ocean South America IN THE SPOTLIGHT The full moon is eclipsed by the Earth's shadow in this five-picture combination Saturday over Athens, Greece. Total lunar eclipse enthralls skygazers Al-Maliki plans changes in Cabinet BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he will reshuffle his Cabinet within two weeks and pursue criminal charges against political figures linked to extremists as a sign of his government's resolve to restore stability during the U.S.-led security crackdown in Baghdad. Al-Maliki has been under pressure from the U.S.

to bring order into his factious government. Full story, photo on Page A5 OUR NATION Government projects future rise in emissions WASHINGTON, D.C. By 2020, the United States will emit almost one-fifth more gases that lead to global warming than it did in 2000, increasing the risks of drought and scarce water supplies. That projection comes from an internal draft report from the Bush administration that is more than a year overdue at the United Nations. The Associated Press obtained a copy Saturday The United States already is responsible for roughly one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases that scientists blame for global warming.

The draft report, which is still being completed, projects that the current administration's climate policy would result in the emission of 9.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases in 2020, a 19 percent increase from 7.7 billion tons in 2000. A Mayor Nagin says city 'piled it on' in lawsuit NEW ORLEANS Only $1 billion of the $77 billion the city is seeking from the Army Corps of Engineers is for infrastructure damages it says it suffered because of levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina. The rest is for such things as the city's tarnished image and tourist industry losses. The city "looked at everything and just kind of piled it on," Mayor Ray Nagin said. "We got some advice from some attorneys to be aggressive with the number, and we'll see what happens," he said.

New Orleans has joined big business and thousands of homeowners in filing claims seeking compensation from the corps for damages sustained when the levees broke during the 2005 storm, flooding 80 percent of the city. The claims allege poor design and negligence by the corps led to the failure of flood walls and levees. 5Snowmobilcr buried after avalanche survives HELENA, Mont. A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches after a relative found him by using a probe. Ryan Roberts, 34, said Friday he was astonished he survived the avalanche, which occurred about 4 p.m.

Thursday while snowmobiling with an uncle and friend in Flathead National Forest's Jewel Basin near Kalispell. He was found shortly before midnight. Neither of his companions was caught in the avalanche. "I guess I was just allowed to live another Ryan Roberts day," Roberts said in a telephone interview after his release from Kalispell Regional Medical Center. Roberts said he tried to outrun the avalanche by driving his snowmobile at about 80 mph, but leaped off the machine as it sped toward trees.

He said ne tumbled downhill and was buried face-up by about 4 feet of snow. After he was dug out, Roberts was taken by snowmobile to the hospital 20 miles away. His wife, Billie, said his temperature at the hospital Friday morning was 90 degrees. 6Cherokees vote on freed slaves' descendants OKLAHOMA CITY Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves. With a majority of districts reporting, 76 percent had voted in favor of an amendment to the tribal constitution that would limit citizenship to descendants of "by blood" tribe members as listed on the federal Dawes Commission's rolls from more than 100 years ago.

The commission, set up by a Congress bent on breaking up Indians' collective lands and parceling them out to tribal citizens, drew up two rolls, one f. Ocean Australia 1 Earth's orbit. Sunlight still reaches the moon during total eclipses, but it is refracted through Earth's atmosphere, bathing the moon in an eerie crimson light. Mike Ealay, a 60-year-old architect who wandered over to the observatory to watch the eclipse, said the red color of the moon made it look like a close-up version of Mars. "I think it's quite exciting.

It's like having the red planet on your doorstep," he said. Despite cloudy conditions over much of Europe, a variety of Webcasts carried the event live, and astronomers urged the public not to miss out on the spectacle. "It's not an event that has any sci More than 500 people, including scores of foreigners, have been arrested since the riots started Thursday. Authorities said more than 200 were arrested early Saturday following overnight clashes in which demonstrators pelted police with cobblestones and set fire to cars. A school was also vandalized and several buildings damaged by fire early Saturday.

One protester was reportedly wounded in the violence, while 25 were injured the night before in what police have called Denmark's worst riots in a decade. More scuffles were reported in various parts of the city Saturday night after a day of relative calm. Dozens of police vans patrolled the streets and broke up gatherings of protesters to prevent larger mobs from forming. Police said activists from Sweden, Norway and Germany had joined hundreds of Danish youths in the protests. Sympathy protests were held in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

1 1 Russian police stop iinti-Kremlin protest ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses on Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown. Several thousand members of liberal and leftist groups chanted "Shame!" as they marched down St. Petersburg's main avenue to protest what they said was Russia's roll back from democracy. The demonstration, called the March of Those Who Disagree, was a rare gathering of the country's often fractious opposition.

It was at least the third time police have moved in to break up an anti-Kremlin protest in recent months. St. Petersburg authorities had prohibited the march, only granting permission for a rally far from the city center, but the activists defied the ban and marched down the Nevsky Prospekt, the city's main street, blocking traffic. The mayor called the protesters extremists trying to destabilize the city ahead of local elections. 1 Pope names new archbishop of Warsaw WARSAW, Poland Pope Benedict XVI has named a new archbishop of Warsaw, the Polish Episcopate said Saturday, filling a post left open when "It's starting to go!" said Alex Gikas, 8, a Cub Scout who was studying for his astronomy badge.

"I've never seen anything like it before. I'm really excited." By the time greatest eclipse, shortly after 4:44 p.m. CST, the light of the full moon was replaced by near-total obscurity. "It was really very dark," said Paul Harper, chairman of the Croydon Astronomical Society, who estimated that moon had lost over four-fifths of its luminosity. "It was quite a nice one." Lunar eclipses occur when Earth passes between the sun and the moon, an uncommon event because the moon spends most of its time either above or below the plane of Several officials said historical data and coral-covered artifacts recovered from the site including 25 cannons, which experts said was an uncommonly large number to find on a ship in the region in the early 18th century remove any doubt the wreckage belonged to Blackbeard.

Blackbeard, whose real name was widely believed to be Edward Teach or Edward Thatch, settled in Bath and received a governor's pardon. Some experts believe he grew bored with land life and returned to piracy. OUR WORLD 9 Iranian president, Saudi king pledge cooperation RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Following their first official talks in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian and Saudi leaders on Saturday pledged to fight the spread of sectarian strife in the Middle East, which they said was the biggest danger facing the region. Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-madinejad and King Abdullah also stressed the importance of maintaining Palestinian unity and bringing security to Iraq, the official Saudi Press Agency said. The agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying he supported Saudi efforts to calm the situation in Lebanon and end its political crisis.

Iran supports Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, which is trying to topple the U.S.- and Saudi-backed government. The talks between the two leaders have been touted as a possible means to defuse sectarian tensions in Iraq and Lebanon, and prevent Iran from sliding further into isolation. Iran and Saudi Arabia have had chilly relations since the 2005 election of Ahmadinejad, whose refusal to suspend uranium enrichment has led to U.N. Security Council sanctions and made Iran's Arab neighbors increasingly wary of the country's nuclear program. 10 Anarchists flock to join rioters in Denmark Associated PressDIMITRI MESSINIS entific value, but it's something everybody can enjoy," said Robert Massey, of Britain's Royal Astronomical Society.

The moon's red blush faded as it began moving out of Earth's shadow just after 7 p.m. CST. The eclipse ended a little more than hour later. Residents of east Asia saw the eclipse cut short by moonset, while those in the eastern parts of North and South America had the moon already partially or totally eclipsed by the time it rose over the horizon in the evening. While eastern Australia, Alaska and New Zealand missed Saturday's show, they will have front row seats to the next total lunar eclipse, on Aug.

28. his predecessor resigned after admitting to ties with the communist-era secret police. Kazimierz Nycz, the 57-year-old bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg in northern Poland, replaces former Warsaw Archbishop Stanislaw Wiel-gus, who abruptly stepped down at what was to be his installation Mass on Jan. 7 after admitting he cooperated with the secret police. Wielgus' resignation rattled Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church, and threatened to shake the widely held belief that the church acted as a courageous opponent of communism in the homeland of the late Pope John Paul II.

Speaking with Vatican Radio after the announcement, Nycz said it was a "difficult decision," but also a "gift" to fake up the challenges facing the Warsaw church. 13 U.S., Brazil launch forum on biofuels UNITED NATIONS The world's two top ethanol producers the U.S. and Brazil announced the creation of an international forum to help expand the global market for biofuels, just days before the two countries are expected to sign a separate agreement promoting ethanol across the Western Hemisphere. The International Biofuel Forum will meet regularly for a year to draft global standards for biofuel production, find ways to open markets and encourage investment in countries with the potential to develop the industry, officials said Friday. "By working together we will be able to identify ways to help countries with agricultural potential become major energy suppliers," said Thomas A.

Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs. "We think this is a huge step forward in the development of a new international understanding of energy." The announcement comes a week before President Bush travels to Brazil for talks in which renewable biofuels will top the agenda. Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are expected to sign an agreement separate from the international forum to share scientific and technological research for an industry that has grown in both countries. From Pantagraph wire services tr On the Net: For updates on news before to-0 morrow morning, tog on to The Pantagraph online at: www.pantagraph.com BY Raphael G. Satter ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargaz-ers and astronomers around the world.

The Earth's shadow took over six hours to crawl across the moon's surface, eating it into a crescent shape before engulfing it completely in a spectacle at least partly visible on every continent. About a dozen amateur astronomers braved the cold and mud outside the Croydon Observatory in southeast London to watch the start of the eclipse. listing Cherokees by blood and the other listing freedmen, a roll of blacks regardless of whether they had Indian blood. Some opponents of the ballot question argued that attempts to remove freedmen from the tribe were motivated by racism. Tribal officials said the vote was a matter of self-determination.

Museum identifies new dinosaur species CLEVELAND A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said. The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops which came 10 million years later. However, this animal belonged to a subfamily that usually had bony nubbins a few inches long above their eyes. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, published the discovery in this month's Journal of Paleontology. He dug up the fossil six years ago in southern Alberta, Canada, while a graduate student for the University of Calgary.

"Unquestionably, it's an important find," said Peter Dodson, a University, of Pennsylvania paleontologist. "It was sort of the grandfather or great-uncle of the really diverse horned dinosaurs that came after it." Ryan named the new dinosaur Alber-taceratops nesmoi, after the region and Cecil Nesmo, a rancher near Manyber-ries, Alberta, who has helped fossil hunters. The creature was about 20 feet long and lived 78 million years ago. 8 Excavating historic ship could take 3 years RALEIGH, N.C. A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said.

"That's really our target," Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist, said Friday while discussing 10 years of research that has been conducted since the shipwreck was found just off Atlantic Beach. The ship tan aground in 1718, and some researchers believe it was a French slave ship Blackbeard captured in 1717 and renamed Queen Anne's Revenge. COPENHAGEN, Denmark Anarchists from across northern Europe flocked to join protesters in the Danish capital on Saturday after two nights of riots sparked by the eviction of squatters from an abandoned building that had been a center for young leftists and punk rockers. i i.