One dead, dozens injured in Jerusalem explosion

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:46:00 +0000

(updated below)

A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, injuring dozens and killing one in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years.

The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses. Rescuers were seen removing bloodied people from the area on stretchers. Israel's national rescue service said 25 people were wounded, including 15 seriously. State-run Israel Radio says one woman has died.

Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:24:00 +0000

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles. She was 79.

Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure. Morrison says her children were at her side.

She'd been hospitalized for about six weeks.

Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

She was equally famous for extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including eight marriages and a series of physical ailments.

In later years, she was a spokeswoman for humanitarian causes, notably AIDS research. That work gained her a special Oscar in 1993.

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One dead, dozens injured in Jerusalem explosion

Actress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79