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DIED. KATHARINE HEPBURN, 96, brainy, glamorous, iron-willed icon of Hollywood's golden age, whose record four best-actress Academy Awards highlighted a screen career that spanned more than 60 years and included such films as Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen and The Philadelphia Story; at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A highbrow with even loftier cheekbones, Hepburn's mannish dress and assertiveness on- and offscreen cost her popularity early on, but eventually became trademarks and made her a role model to generations of female fans.

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DIED. HERBIE MANN, 73, pioneering jazz flutist whose experimentation in diverse musical genres won him listeners while alienating jazz purists; in Pecos, New Mexico. Mann helped popularize Brazilian music before venturing forth into the realms of disco, reggae and klezmer.

DIED. KHIEU PONNARY, 83, first wife of late Cambodian dictator and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot; after decades of incapacitating mental illness; in Pailin, Cambodia. The daughter of a wealthy Phnom Penh family, Khieu Ponnary met Pol Pot in Paris and married him in 1956. Following the Khmer Rouge's 1979 overthrow, Pol Pot left her for a younger woman.

DIED. BUDDY HACKETT, 78, film funnyman who parlayed rotund homeliness into starring roles in The Music Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; in Malibu, California. In his later years, Hackett was rarely off the nightclub circuit but got occasional film parts, most notably as the voice of Scuttle the seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid.

DIED. BARRY WHITE, 58, moody, mountainous singer known as the "Black Walrus of Love" whose libidinous baritone and concupiscent lyrics inspired ardor on divans and backseats through the 1970s; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. White took the bawdy jazz ballad and applied a lush varnish of soul to produce such hits as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. White was rediscovered by younger generations and in 2000 won his first two Grammys for the song Staying Power.

CHARGED. PLATON LEBEDEV, 43, billionaire associate of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections.

SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD NAZAR, 30, political activist arrested in February for promoting an Acehnese independence referendum; to five years in prison for sedition; in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

ARRESTED. CHEN FUZHAO, 29, an accused member of the banned Chinese religious sect Falun Gong; on suspicion of killing 16 homeless people by giving them food laced with rat poison; in Zhejiang province, China. According to state-run media, Chen confessed to the crime, claiming he was committing a virtuous act in expectation of karmic compensation.

ARRESTED. HIROTOSHI HONDA, 61, eldest son of late Honda Motor Co. founder Soichiro Honda; for allegedly evading $8.5 million in corporate taxes while head of Formula One engine maker Mugen; in Saitama, Japan.

Numbers

$152,000 Cost of a bed-size burial plot in downtown Tokyo's Aoyama Cemetery

43 Number of years since any plots were last up for sale

$25 million Bounty placed on Saddam Hussein's head by the U.S.

52 Percentage of Americans responding to an AP poll who believe the U.S. had evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaeda

3,000 Number of children who die each day from malaria

2,074 Number of women registered to vote in a mock election in Kuwait, where women cannot legally vote

10,000 Number of new words, including "brewski," "agita" and "barista," included in the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

35 Number of countries to which the U.S. suspended aid for refusing to promise immunity to Americans appearing before the International Criminal Court

Omen

Doctors in Copenhagen warn that a woman whose first child is a boy is more likely to miscarry subsequent pregnancies due to her immune system's response to proteins unique to the male fetus