Milestones

HOSPITALIZED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, jailed former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; for a worsening back condition; in Kuala Lumpur. After complaining that he'd lost feeling in his left leg, Anwar was rushed from prison to the hospital, where medical tests diagnosed kidney, nerve and spinal damage. Anwar's family is lobbying the government to let him leave Malaysia for treatment in Munich. Anwar is awaiting the result of his final appeal on a controversial 1998 conviction and nine-year prison term for sodomy.

REAPPOINTED. HUN SEN, as Cambodian Prime Minister; by the country's King Norodom Sihanouk, after a political stalemate that left the country without a government for nearly a year; in Phnom Penh. Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) received the most votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country.

WON. The Big Bird Race, a 10,000-kilometer competition for seabirds flying from New Zealand to South Africa; by APHRODITE, an albatross sponsored by Jerry Hall, former model and ex-wife of rock star Mick Jagger; at the Cape of Good Hope. The race follows the migratory route of the Tasmanian Shy albatross. Second place went to Xanadu, sponsored by Nicholas Coleridge, a descendent of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

KILLED. AT LEAST 88 STUDENTS aged six to 13 at the Lord Krishna Middle School; in a fire that started in the school's kitchen; in Kumbakonam, south India. Police arrested the owner of the private school and four others for alleged negligence.

DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, Italian cinematographer; in his native Rome. Known for his innovative use of color and light, Di Palma made his reputation with Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert and Blow Up, and later collaborated with Woody Allen on 11 movies, including Hannah and her Sisters.

DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, founder of both Gold's Gym and World Gym, which helped popularize California's "Muscle Beach" workout culture; in Los Angeles. Gold designed and built the bodybuilding machines for the original Gold's Gym in Venice Beach, which counted Arnold Schwarzenegger among its clients. He sold Gold's Gym in the early 1970s, then opened World Gym in 1977; it now has 300 branches worldwide.

KILLED. OSAMA KASHMOULA, governor of Nineveh province in northern Iraq; in a roadside grenade ambush; between the cities of Tikrit and Bayji. The former professor of agriculture, appointed governor in April, was the highest-ranking Iraqi official to be killed by insurgents since May. The ambush occurred as Kashmoula was on his way to meet Iraqi President Sheik Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar.

JAILED. PHAM QUE DUONG, 73, former colonel in Vietnam's army; for sending e-mail messages in which he criticized government corruption and advocated democratic reforms; in Hanoi. Duong was sentenced to 19 months in prison but will be released at the end of July in consideration of time served since his arrest in December 2002. The verdict came a week after courts handed an identical sentence to fellow Internet dissident, literature Professor Tran Khue.

Numbers

150 meters Height of a buddha, the world's tallest, to be built in India's Uttar Pradesh state

$36 Price of a tattered suitcase that a British tourist bought at an Australian flea market; the case turned out to contain rare alternative record-ings of several Beatles songs

10,000 Number of people killed in Darfur, Sudan, since fighting began one year ago, prompting U.S. Senators to introduce a resolution declaring the killings to be genocide

$54 million Amount that Morgan Stanley will pay to settle a sex-discrimination suit filed by more than 300 women; $12 million goes to the lead plaintiff

$116 million Amount the Palestine Liberation Organization has been ordered to pay to the estate of a Jewish couple killed near the West Bank eight years ago, after a lawsuit was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991