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(CNN) -- A bird struck an Arkansas hospital's helicopter Saturday, tearing a hole into the aircraft's nose and prompting the pilot to land early, according to officials and pictures taken after the landing.

A medical helicopter landed near Forrest City, Arkansas, on Saturday after striking a bird.

The chopper's pilot made a "safe landing" in that state after hitting a bird while returning to Baptist Health Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, hospital spokesman Mark Lowman said.

"I think the pilot just made a judgment call to set it down," Lowman said of the landing, which happened at 6:15 p.m. Saturday near Forrest City, Arkansas.

Video footage taken by CNN affiliate WREG showed a bird hanging out of a hole torn into the paneling on the chopper's nose. Part of the helicopter's windshield also was broken.

The pilot was slightly injured during the landing, and the other two crew members on board were uninjured, Lowman said.

Federal aviation officials are investigating, and the helicopter is not expected to be grounded for long, he said.

The helicopter was returning from a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where the crew had taken a patient.

The incident came two days after a US Airways jetliner was forced to land in New York's Hudson River, apparently after striking a flock of birds.

Shortly after the jet took off from New York's LaGuardia airport on Thursday, the crew reported seeing a flock of birds. Seconds later, the cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of loud "thumps" and both of the plane's engines failed.

The pilot, C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, landed the Airbus A320 in the Hudson, where all 155 people aboard were rescued.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- As Ryan O'Neal walked the red carpet at the premiere of "Farrah's Story," he stopped every few feet to answer reporters' questions about Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer.

Farrah Fawcett was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. 'Farrah's Story,' a documentary on her battle, will air Friday.

CNN's Douglas Hyde was at the end of the line and the last to interview the actor, who was almost in tears after a string of intense explanations about his longtime companion's condition.

"She was OK in the first interview, but now I'm worried," O'Neal said, visibly drained after focusing on Fawcett's battle.

The documentary, which airs Friday night on NBC, is not a celebration of Fawcett's career, but an intimate look at her life since being diagnosed with anal cancer three years ago.

"Basically, it's a gonzo trip," O'Neal said.

It was shot by Fawcett's close friend, Alana Stewart.

"It shows you every detail, how she found out and how she dealt with it," O'Neal said.

Early in 2007, Fawcett said she was told her cancer had gone into remission. Her official Web site has posts from February 2007 celebrating the news.

But the cancer returned later that year.

Anal cancer affects more women than men, and the illness is usually found in people who are in their early 60s. The American Cancer Society estimates that 5,000 new cases of anal cancer are diagnosed each year and about 680 people die from it annually.

While cancer keeps Farrah in her bed, a legal fight has begun over the documentary.

Producer Craig Nevius filed a lawsuit this week against O'Neal and Stewart, claiming they stole creative control of the film from him.

Nevius told CNN he was kicked off the project more than two months ago.

"I have been banned from talking to or seeing Farrah for about ten weeks, which is highly unusual, considering that healthy or sick, I spoke to this woman at least twice a day from the time of her diagnosis on," Nevius said.

Nevius said his goal was to do the film "based on Farrah's artistic visions that are a reflection of her and while at the same time maintaining and protecting her privacy to the extent that she wants it maintained and protected."

"I take no joy in this," Nevius said. "I tried to avoid this, but I am doing it for Farrah."

A spokesman for O'Neal called it "horrific" that Nevius would file the lawsuit.

"We hope and we pray that Farrah Fawcett does not find out about this lawsuit, because we know it would impact her health even more so," said O'Neal spokesman Paul Bloch.

CNN's Douglas Hyde and Marc Balinsky contributed to this report.

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ABUSIR, Egypt (CNN) -- Today, I met Cleopatra's lawyer. Well, not her lawyer but someone who is determined to defend the legendary queen against centuries of bad publicity.

Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, wants to mend Cleopatra's tattered reputation.

Kathleen Martinez is a young archaeologist from the Dominican Republic who has toiled for three years on a barren hillside overlooking the coastal highway linking Alexandria with the Libyan border. According to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, it's here, at a spot known as Abusir, that the tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra might be located.

I met Martinez in a dusty tomb full of bones at the excavation site. She recounted to me that, as a young girl, she listened in on a scholarly discussion in her father's library about Cleopatra.

"They were speaking very badly about her and about her image," she recalled. "I got very upset. I said I didn't believe what they are saying, that I needed to study more about her."

Martinez went on to earn a law degree but continued to be fascinated by the saga of Cleopatra. Four years ago, she managed to convince Zahi Hawass, the untiring director of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, to allow her to start excavating at Abusir.

Her fascination with -- and admiration for -- Cleopatra is intense. The last queen of Ancient Egypt, she told me, "spoke nine languages, she was a philosopher, she was a poet, she was a politician, she was a goddess, and she was a warrior."

In short, Martinez believes, Cleopatra was a woman way ahead of her times.

And given that history is written by the victors -- in Cleopatra's case, the Romans -- her press was somewhat less than complimentary. It was "bad propaganda," in Martinez's words. For that reason, she told me, "I want to be Cleopatra's lawyer."

With Hawass, Martinez is now working on a book about Cleopatra to repair all that damage.

The tale of Antony and Cleopatra has fueled the popular imagination for centuries. Ill-fated lovers were a favorite theme for William Shakespeare, and the Roman noble and the Egyptian queen certainly fit the bill.

Marc Antony was a no less fascinating character than Cleopatra. In his youth, he led a life of heavy drinking and womanizing. According to the Roman historian Plutarch, Antony accumulated debts of 250 talents, the equivalent of $5 million, before reaching 20.

To escape his creditors in Rome, he fled to Greece, where he studied with the philosophers of Athens, before being called to join the Roman legions in the east, then serving under Julius Caesar.

After Caesar's assassination, Marc Antony became embroiled in a series of power struggles and eventually ended up in Egypt.

Egypt was the enemy of his former ally, Octavian, who would go on to become the Emperor Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.

Octavian defeated Antony's forces at the battle of Actium in 30 B.C. Shortly afterward, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, he by his own sword, she by a poisonous asp.

Octavian, according to Plutarch, allowed them to be buried together "in splendid and regal fashion." But no one knows where.

The sudden focus on Antony and Cleopatra has also reignited an old debate over the latter's looks. Was Cleopatra a stunning beauty a la Elizabeth Taylor, or somewhat less spectacular?

Researchers from Newcastle University in England claimed in 2007 that, based upon coins found from the period, she was quite homely, with "a shallow forehead, long, pointed nose, narrow lips and a sharply pointed chin."  See gallery of tomb that might be Cleopatra's Â»

The same researchers didn't have a very flattering assessment of Marc Antony either, saying he had "bulging eyes, a large hooked nose and a thick neck." No Richard Burton.

This does contradict Plutarch's description of Marc Antony as having "a noble dignity of form; and a shapely beard, a broad forehead, and an aquiline nose [that] were thought to show the virile qualities peculiar to the portraits and statues of Hercules"?

Hawass hasn't had much to say in defense of Marc Antony, but he claims the coins found in Abusir show Cleopatra was "beautiful."

At Abusir, he showed me one of the coins with Cleopatra's likeness. "The only thing you can see here is her nose is a bit big."

That's because, Hawass insisted, "when you draw a face on a coin you cannot draw the beauty of a queen, and therefore I think that the lady who captured the hearts of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony cannot have been ugly."

Egyptians, who are intensely proud of their country and its ancient heritage, may be forgiven for their insistence on this point.

I tend to take the middle ground on this one. Beauty is more than skin deep, and what seems to have captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony was not physical but rather inner beauty.  Watch report from CNN's Ben Wedeman on Cleopatra Â»

Plutarch wrote in his "Life of Antony" that "for her beauty was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her." In other words, she was plain. Plutarch goes on to write, however, that she was intelligent, charming and has "sweetness in the tones of her voice."

The mystery of what Cleopatra really looked like may never be solved. In any event, it's just one of many mysteries in Egypt.

Others include the obvious ones: How were the pyramids built? Who built them? Why were they built? How old is the Sphinx?

Hawass dismisses with lusty contempt the people who espouse the more fantastic theories (that aliens built the pyramids, that the Sphinx is more than 10,000 years old), labeling them "pyramidiots."

But there are other historical mysteries out there that have yet to be answered.

Some archaeologists are trying to find the tomb of Alexander the Great (who died in Babylon but, according to some ancient historians, was buried in Egypt).

Others are searching for the remains of the lost army of Cambyses -- 50,000 soldiers dispatched on a mission by the Persian Emperor to attack the Oracle of Amon (today's Siwa Oasis in western Egypt) only to disappear during a sandstorm in the Sahara Desert.

There has been plenty of excitement in the past few days over reports that Martinez and her team are about to find the long-lost tomb of Antony and Cleopatra.

Alas, the enthusiasts are going to have to be patient.

The summer residence of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is just down the road from the site. For security reasons, no one is allowed on the hillside where the excavations are taking place from May through November. So unless Mubarak decides to overrule his security detail, the solving of this mystery will have to be put on hold for at least another five months.

We've waited 2,000 years. I guess we can wait a few more months.

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text: a

text: philosopher

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: poet

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: politician

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: goddess

text: and

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: warrior

text: In

text: short

text: Martinez

text: believes

text: Cleopatra

text: was

text: a

text: woman

text: way

text: ahead

text: of

text: her

text: times

text: And

text: given

text: that

text: history

text: is

text: written

text: by

text: the

text: victors

text: in

text: Cleopatra

text: 's

text: case

text: the

text: Romans

text: her

text: press

text: was

text: somewhat

text: less

text: than

text: complimentary

text: It

text: was

text: bad

text: propaganda

text: in

text: Martinez

text: 's

text: words

text: For

text: that

text: reason

text: she

text: told

text: me

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: be

text: Cleopatra

text: 's

text: lawyer

text: With

text: Hawass

text: Martinez

text: is

text: now

text: working

text: on

text: a

text: book

text: about

text: Cleopatra

text: to

text: repair

text: all

text: that

text: damage

text: The

text: tale

text: of

text: Antony

text: and

text: Cleopatra

text: has

text: fueled

text: the

text: popular

text: imagination

text: for

text: centuries

text: Ill

text: fated

text: lovers

text: were

text: a

text: favorite

text: theme

text: for

text: William

text: Shakespeare

text: and

text: the

text: Roman

text: noble

text: and

text: the

text: Egyptian

text: queen

text: certainly

text: fit

text: the

text: bill

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: was

text: a

text: no

text: less

text: fascinating

text: character

text: than

text: Cleopatra

text: In

text: his

text: youth

text: he

text: led

text: a

text: life

text: of

text: heavy

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text: and

text: womanizing

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: Roman

text: historian

text: Plutarch

text: Antony

text: accumulated

text: debts

text: of

text: talents

text: the

text: equivalent

text: of

text: million

text: before

text: reaching

text: To

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text: his

text: creditors

text: in

text: Rome

text: he

text: fled

text: to

text: Greece

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text: he

text: studied

text: with

text: the

text: philosophers

text: of

text: Athens

text: before

text: being

text: called

text: to

text: join

text: the

text: Roman

text: legions

text: in

text: the

text: east

text: then

text: serving

text: under

text: Julius

text: Caesar

text: After

text: Caesar

text: 's

text: assassination

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: became

text: embroiled

text: in

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: power

text: struggles

text: and

text: eventually

text: ended

text: up

text: in

text: Egypt

text: Egypt

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text: the

text: enemy

text: of

text: his

text: former

text: ally

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text: who

text: would

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text: the

text: Emperor

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text: battle

text: of

text: Actium

text: in

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text: and

text: Cleopatra

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text: he

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text: she

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text: a

text: poisonous

text: asp

text: Octavian

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text: to

text: Plutarch

text: allowed

text: them

text: to

text: be

text: buried

text: together

text: in

text: splendid

text: and

text: regal

text: fashion

text: But

text: no

text: one

text: knows

text: where

text: The

text: sudden

text: focus

text: on

text: Antony

text: and

text: Cleopatra

text: has

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text: Cleopatra

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text: beauty

text: a

text: la

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text: or

text: somewhat

text: less

text: spectacular

text: Researchers

text: from

text: Newcastle

text: University

text: in

text: England

text: claimed

text: in

text: that

text: based

text: upon

text: coins

text: found

text: from

text: the

text: period

text: she

text: was

text: quite

text: homely

text: with

text: a

text: shallow

text: forehead

text: long

text: pointed

text: nose

text: narrow

text: lips

text: and

text: a

text: sharply

text: pointed

text: chin

text: See

text: gallery

text: of

text: tomb

text: that

text: might

text: be

text: Cleopatra

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text: Â

text: The

text: same

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text: have

text: a

text: very

text: flattering

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text: of

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: either

text: saying

text: he

text: had

text: bulging

text: eyes

text: a

text: large

text: hooked

text: nose

text: and

text: a

text: thick

text: neck

text: No

text: Richard

text: Burton

text: This

text: does

text: contradict

text: Plutarch

text: 's

text: description

text: of

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: as

text: having

text: a

text: noble

text: dignity

text: of

text: form

text: and

text: a

text: shapely

text: beard

text: a

text: broad

text: forehead

text: and

text: an

text: aquiline

text: nose

text: that

text: were

text: thought

text: to

text: show

text: the

text: virile

text: qualities

text: peculiar

text: to

text: the

text: portraits

text: and

text: statues

text: of

text: Hercules

text: Hawass

text: has

text: n't

text: had

text: much

text: to

text: say

text: in

text: defense

text: of

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: but

text: he

text: claims

text: the

text: coins

text: found

text: in

text: Abusir

text: show

text: Cleopatra

text: was

text: beautiful

text: At

text: Abusir

text: he

text: showed

text: me

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: coins

text: with

text: Cleopatra

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text: can

text: see

text: here

text: is

text: her

text: nose

text: is

text: a

text: bit

text: big

text: That

text: 's

text: because

text: Hawass

text: insisted

text: when

text: you

text: draw

text: a

text: face

text: on

text: a

text: coin

text: you

text: can

text: not

text: draw

text: the

text: beauty

text: of

text: a

text: queen

text: and

text: therefore

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: the

text: lady

text: who

text: captured

text: the

text: hearts

text: of

text: Julius

text: Caesar

text: and

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: can

text: not

text: have

text: been

text: ugly

text: Egyptians

text: who

text: are

text: intensely

text: proud

text: of

text: their

text: country

text: and

text: its

text: ancient

text: heritage

text: may

text: be

text: forgiven

text: for

text: their

text: insistence

text: on

text: this

text: point

text: I

text: tend

text: to

text: take

text: the

text: middle

text: ground

text: on

text: this

text: one

text: Beauty

text: is

text: more

text: than

text: skin

text: deep

text: and

text: what

text: seems

text: to

text: have

text: captivated

text: Julius

text: Caesar

text: and

text: Marc

text: Antony

text: was

text: not

text: physical

text: but

text: rather

text: inner

text: beauty

text: Watch

text: report

text: from

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ben

text: Wedeman

text: on

text: Cleopatra

text: Â

text: Plutarch

text: wrote

text: in

text: his

text: Life

text: of

text: Antony

text: that

text: for

text: her

text: beauty

text: was

text: in

text: itself

text: not

text: altogether

text: incomparable

text: nor

text: such

text: as

text: to

text: strike

text: those

text: who

text: saw

text: her

text: In

text: other

text: words

text: she

text: was

text: plain

text: Plutarch

text: goes

text: on

text: to

text: write

text: however

text: that

text: she

text: was

text: intelligent

text: charming

text: and

text: has

text: sweetness

text: in

text: the

text: tones

text: of

text: her

text: voice

text: The

text: mystery

text: of

text: what

text: Cleopatra

text: really

text: looked

text: like

text: may

text: never

text: be

text: solved

text: In

text: any

text: event

text: it

text: 's

text: just

text: one

text: of

text: many

text: mysteries

text: in

text: Egypt

text: Others

text: include

text: the

text: obvious

text: ones

text: How

text: were

text: the

text: pyramids

text: built

text: Who

text: built

text: them

text: Why

text: were

text: they

text: built

text: How

text: old

text: is

text: the

text: Sphinx

text: Hawass

text: dismisses

text: with

text: lusty

text: contempt

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: espouse

text: the

text: more

text: fantastic

text: theories

text: that

text: aliens

text: built

text: the

text: pyramids

text: that

text: the

text: Sphinx

text: is

text: more

text: than

text: years

text: old

text: labeling

text: them

text: pyramidiots

text: But

text: there

text: are

text: other

text: historical

text: mysteries

text: out

text: there

text: that

text: have

text: yet

text: to

text: be

text: answered

text: Some

text: archaeologists

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: find

text: the

text: tomb

text: of

text: Alexander

text: the

text: Great

text: who

text: died

text: in

text: Babylon

text: but

text: according

text: to

text: some

text: ancient

text: historians

text: was

text: buried

text: in

text: Egypt

text: Others

text: are

text: searching

text: for

text: the

text: remains

text: of

text: the

text: lost

text: army

text: of

text: Cambyses

text: soldiers

text: dispatched

text: on

text: a

text: mission

text: by

text: the

text: Persian

text: Emperor

text: to

text: attack

text: the

text: Oracle

text: of

text: Amon

text: today

text: 's

text: Siwa

text: Oasis

text: in

text: western

text: Egypt

text: only

text: to

text: disappear

text: during

text: a

text: sandstorm

text: in

text: the

text: Sahara

text: Desert

text: There

text: has

text: been

text: plenty

text: of

text: excitement

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: days

text: over

text: reports

text: that

text: Martinez

text: and

text: her

text: team

text: are

text: about

text: to

text: find

text: the

text: long

text: lost

text: tomb

text: of

text: Antony

text: and

text: Cleopatra

text: Alas

text: the

text: enthusiasts

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: to

text: be

text: patient

text: The

text: summer

text: residence

text: of

text: Egyptian

text: President

text: Hosni

text: Mubarak

text: is

text: just

text: down

text: the

text: road

text: from

text: the

text: site

text: For

text: security

text: reasons

text: no

text: one

text: is

text: allowed

text: on

text: the

text: hillside

text: where

text: the

text: excavations

text: are

text: taking

text: place

text: from

text: May

text: through

text: November

text: So

text: unless

text: Mubarak

text: decides

text: to

text: overrule

text: his

text: security

text: detail

text: the

text: solving

text: of

text: this

text: mystery

text: will

text: have

text: to

text: be

text: put

text: on

text: hold

text: for

text: at

text: least

text: another

text: five

text: months

text: We

text: 've

text: waited

text: years

text: I

text: guess

text: we

text: can

text: wait

text: a

text: few

text: more

text: months

question: What was martinez looking for in Egypt?

answer: the tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra

text: the tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra

question: For how long has Martinez toiled?

answer: three years

text: three years

question: Who was Marc Antony's lover?

answer: Cleopatra

text: Cleopatra

question: Was she actually a poet?

answer: a

text: a

question: What is the number of languages Cleopatra spoke?

answer: nine

text: nine

question: What was the name of her lover?

answer: Marc Antony

text: Marc Antony

question: How many languages did Cleopatra speak?

answer: nine

text: nine


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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN)  -- Former football star O.J. Simpson will be held without bail after his arrest on robbery and assault charges, police announced late Sunday.

Police released this mug shot of O.J. Simpson after his arrest.

Simpson is accused of having directed several other men in an alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia in a room at a Las Vegas hotel room.

Las Vegas authorities said they have no information leading them to believe Simpson was carrying a firearm during the alleged incident at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino.

Police said Simpson and other men burst into the room and walked out with the memorabilia, including some that was unrelated to Simpson, police said.

"We don't believe that anyone was roughed up, but there were firearms involved," Lt. Clint Nichols told reporters.

Nichols said the firearms were pointed at the victims.

A reporter asked Nichols: Was "O.J. was the boss in that room?"

Nichols responded, "That is what we believe, yes."  Watch Simpson transferred Sunday in handcuffs Â»

The alleged victims were identified as Bruce Fromong, a sports memorabilia collector who described the incident as "a home invasion-type robbery," and Alfred Beardsley, who has been quoted by celebrity Web site TMZ.com as saying that Simpson later apologized to him and told him he regretted the incident.

Acting on a tip, police met over the weekend at McCarran International Airport with 46-year-old Walter Alexander, of Mesa, Arizona, who told them about the alleged robbery and validated the tipster's information, Capt. James Dillon told reporters.

Alexander was arrested Saturday night on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon.

He was released on his own recognizance and returned to Mesa either Saturday night or early Sunday morning, Dillon said.

In addition, investigators are seeking four other men they believe accompanied Simpson into the hotel room, Nichols said.

Nichols said, "There is a social relationship between the individuals that we identified and O.J. Simpson."

Though Simpson is not accused of having brandished a gun himself, two firearms that police said were used were recovered early Sunday in one of three searches. Investigators would would not divulge where the weapons were found.

Nichols dismissed an initial report that the men may have been off-duty police.

"There is no truth to that whatsoever," he said. "That came as a result of some language that was used when the individuals burst into the room that led our victims to believe that they may have been police."

Simpson, 60, has acknowledged taking some items that belonged to him, but he has denied that any weapons were involved.

"Whether the property belonged to Mr. Simpson or not is still in debate," Nichols said. "We are still in the process of sorting that out."

Nichols also said that some of the property taken had Simpson's signature. But "there was some other property taken as well," he said. "I believe there were some Joe Montana cleats and some signed baseballs and other stuff."

The latest charges against Simpson mean he faces the prospect of another prosecution, more than a decade after the June 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.

Simpson was acquitted of murder the following year. The trial riveted much of the United States.

But in 1997, a jury found him liable for the deaths in a civil case brought by the Goldman family. Simpson was ordered to pay the families a total of $33.5 million for the deaths

Goldman had gone to Nicole Simpson's Los Angeles home to return a pair of glasses the day of the slayings.

Goldman's sister, Kim Goldman, said she wasn't surprised by the robbery allegations, since Simpson "thinks he can do no wrong."

"He's capable of stabbing people to death, so I think robbery is nothing surprising," she said. "Normal, logical, civil-minded, law-abiding people don't storm a room with guns demanding stuff back."

Fromong had testified on Simpson's behalf in the civil case, telling the court that prices for Simpson memorabilia had dropped substantially since the 1995 verdict. His testimony was part of the defense's contention that Simpson could not afford to pay the Goldmans.

Simpson recently wrote a book originally titled "If I Did It" and had planned to publish it himself, but a public outcry led to the cancellation of his book deal.

A bankruptcy judge subsequently awarded the Goldmans the rights to the book in light of their inability to collect the wrongful death award. The Goldmans retitled the book, "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer." That book just hit bookstores. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report.

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question: What are his charges?

answer: robbery and assault

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question: Which city was Simpson arrested in?

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question: What does the ex-NFL star accused of?

answer: robbery and assault

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question: When simpson was arrested?

answer: Saturday night

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question: Which sports league did the star play in?

answer: football

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question: What charges does Simpson face?

answer: robbery and assault

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(CNN) -- Despite some high-profile bombings in recent days, Iraq's security forces are ready to take over for U.S. forces this week to stabilize the nation's major cities, the U.S. commander in Iraq told CNN on Sunday.

Except for soldiers in advisory roles, all U.S. combat troops will leave Iraqi cities and towns by June 30.

Army Gen. Ray Odierno said he's seen a "constant improvement" in both the security situation and governance in Iraq to prepare for the June 30 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from major cities.

"They've been working for this for a long time," Odierno said on CNN's "State of the Union."

In a separate interview on "Fox News Sunday," Odierno said all U.S. troops already were out of Iraq's major cities before Tuesday's deadline.

"We have already moved out of the cities," Odierno said. "We've been slowly doing it over the last eight months. And the final units have moved out of the cities over the last several weeks."  Watch CNN's Michael Ware on the U.S. withdrawal Â»

The shift is part of the security agreement that former President George W. Bush's administration signed with Iraq.

In the CNN interview, Odierno blamed the recent violence in Iraq on "extremist elements using the timeframe and date to gain attention to themselves and divert attention from the success of Iraqi security forces."

The 131,000 U.S. troops in Iraq still will "maintain full coordination with Iraqi forces inside the cities" and continue to have intelligence capacity, Odierno said. With approval from the Iraqis, they also will carry out operations in major cities as necessary, he said.

Odierno said his goal is to help provide security that allows Iraq to hold planned national elections leading to the eventual removal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011.

He said his biggest worry is a breakdown in stability such as a "consistent increase in violence" or a situation that Iraqi forces can't handle.

"I don't see that" happening, Odierno said. "I think we're on the right path."

Odierno also said Iran continues to "interfere" in Iraq, including training insurgents and paying surrogates. But he said his mission is limited to providing security within Iraq, no matter the provocation from Iran or elsewhere.

"I'm not authorized to do anything outside the borders of Iraq," he said.

Iran's government has repeatedly denied fomenting violence inside Iraq.

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(CNN) -- Singapore's economy shrank by 4.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said Thursday, as it forecast the economy would contract between 2 and 5 percent this year.

Boats ply under a bridge near the financial district of Singapore.

Compared to a robust growth of 7.8 percent a year earlier, the economy grew by 1.1 percent for the whole of 2008, the ministry added.

It called Gross Domestic Product growth prospects for 2009 "weak ... on account of the pessimistic global economic outlook."

All major sectors, except for construction, business services and information and communications, saw contractions, the ministry said.

The ministry cited a decline in private sector investments and private consumption expenditure for dragging down total domestic demand.

Declines in global demand for electronics products, pharmaceuticals and chemicals were also likely to weigh on the manufacturing sector.

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answer: construction, business services and information and communications,

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question: What nation's economy contracted 4 percent in the last quarter of 2008?

answer: Singapore's

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question: What are the government forecasts for the economy in Singapore for the future?

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(CNN) -- U.N. gunships battled rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.

U.N. vehicles on Monday pass between lines of civilians fleeing fighting north of Goma, Congo.

U.N. helicopter gunships, supporting national army forces on the ground, fired on rebels from the Congress for the Defense of the People in an effort to halt their advance on the village of Kibumba.

CNDP is the French acronym for National Congress for the Defense of the People, a Congolese rebel group under renegade general Laurent Nkunda.

The village of Kibumba is the location of a U.N.-administered internally displaced peoples camp, just 12 Â½ miles (20 kilometers) north of the provincial capital, Goma, Bonnardeaux said.

Renewed fighting erupted Sunday when the CNDP seized a major military camp and gorilla park, according to U.N. and park officials. The U.N. brokered peace accord in the area in January.

On Monday, thousands fleeing Kibumba spurred violent demonstrations in front of the U.N. compound in Goma. The group was angry that a 17,000-person U.N. security force has been unable to protect them from renewed bouts of violence in the country, a U.N. spokesman told CNN.

A U.N. spokesman said the U.N.'s mission in Congo was "under attack" on Monday.

A mission staff member inside the U.N. compound, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, said U.N. security forces had returned fire in an attempt to disperse angry crowds near the U.N. compound. Gunshots could be heard as he spoke on the phone.

He said the attack had resulted in several deaths. U.N. officials confirmed one dead in Goma as a result of Monday's demonstrations.

The assault died down later in the day, a U.N. spokesman said, but people continued to pelt the building.

It was unclear who was attacking, but the staff member told CNN the people were from a village that had been taken over by the CNDP, a Congolese renegade group led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda that seized a major military camp and gorilla park in a renewed bout of heavy fighting Sunday.

Thousands of civilians were reportedly fleeing the fighting. Pictures from the region showed long lines of people walking along roads carrying their belongings.  Watch how refugees line roads to get away Â»

Soldiers who abandoned the military camp were retreating in vehicles on a main road outside of Goma on Monday, angrily honking their horns at civilians who got in their way, The Associated Press reported.

Bertrand Bisimwa, a spokesman for the rebels, told the AP that rebel fighters had moved to within 7 miles (11 kilometers) of Goma.

The latest fighting comes after the collapse on Sunday of a tenuous week-old U.N.-brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces.

According to U.N. spokesman Nick Birnback, thousands of displaced civilians in the city of Goma were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, angry that a 17,000-person U.N. security force has been unable to protect them from the violence.

"The situation in Goma is very volatile," he said. "But MONUC is taking all available measures to stabilize the situation."   Watch more about the fighting Â»

The U.N. mission -- known by its French acronym, MONUC -- is in Goma, which is along Congo's border with Rwanda.

Although the civil war in Congo -- once known as Zaire -- officially ended in 2003, recent fighting in eastern Congo between government forces and CNDP rebels under has caused tens of thousands to flee their homes, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.  Watch ranger describe the violence Â»

The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Congo have taken the lives of 5.4 million people since 1998, and 45,000 people die there every month, according to an International Rescue Committee report in January.

A senior U.S. State Department official said the United States is pushing hard for cooperation among Rwanda, Uganda and Congo over the situation in eastern Congo. The official said all countries, especially Congo and Rwanda, "need to work together" to rein in "militia groups and other negative forces."

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer will travel to Congo and Rwanda to urge both governments to take action, the official said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement Monday calling on all parties "to make every effort to restore calm among the affected populations."

The attacks also coincided with the resignation of the U.N. military commander in Congo, Lt. Gen. Vicente Diaz de Villegas y Herreria. A U.N. statement on Monday indicated he stepped down for "personal reasons."

CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report.

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question: What did the protestors attack the HQ with?

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question: Where did UN helicopters attack rebels?

answer: eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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question: What did protesters attack?

answer: village of Kibumba.

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question: What is the name of the resigning UN commander?

answer: go, Lt. Gen. Vicente Diaz de Villegas y Herrer

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question: How many deaths resulted from the attack?

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question: Where did the U.N. Helicopters attack?

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question: The military commander resigned due to what?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates in ships are searching for the lifeboat containing four pirates and their hostage -- the captain of a freighter they failed to hijack earlier this week -- according to a U.S. military official with knowledge of the situation.

Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is being held by pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia.

The pirates are using ships they have already hijacked and larger ships from which they are launching skiffs, the official said Friday.

One of the pirated ships is the German cargo ship Hansa Stavanger, seized April 4 off the coast of Somalia.

The U.S. military has been monitoring communications between the pirates, the official said. The guided missile frigate USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, has now joined the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge in the area. A third ship, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer, which has a large medical facility on board, will be there within a day.

Richard Phillips, the hostage, tried to escape from the pirates Thursday night by jumping out of the lifeboat, a U.S. official said Friday.  Watch what it's like inside a lifeboat Â»

Phillips was believed to be trying to swim to the USS Bainbridge, which is in communication with the four gunmen holding Phillips in the 28-foot boat off Somalia's coast, the official said.

Some of the kidnappers jumped into the water, recaptured Phillips, and returned him to the lifeboat, according to the official.  Watch what happened when captain tried to escape Â»

The pirates fired shots, the military official said, but had no further details.

A Defense Department official told CNN that Phillips appeared to be tied up by the pirates after the escape attempt.

The U.S. official -- who did not want to be named because of the sensitive nature of the situation -- said the escape attempt is being viewed by negotiators as an "optimistic sign" that Phillips is in good health. He has been held since Wednesday, when the hijackers seized control of his U.S.-flagged ship, the Maersk Alabama.  Watch expert talk about hostage escape attempts Â»

The captain's wife Andrea Phillips thanked everyone for their support in a statement.

"My husband is a strong man and we will remain strong for him," she said. "We ask that you do the same. "

Phillips' 20-man crew regained control of the vessel, and they and the vessel are en route to Mombasa, Kenya, according to the father of one of the crew members.

The ship's owners -- the Norfolk, Virginia-based Maersk company -- would not say how the crew regained control. "There will be time for due diligence and retrospective review once we have the safe return of all parties and the opportunity for a full debriefing," it said in a statement.

For the U.S. Navy, the show of strength is more than just a means to resolve a hostage situation, said Chris Lawrence, CNN's Pentagon correspondent.

Attacks in the area have picked up so drastically in recent months that the Navy has to reposition some of its fleet to deal with the threats, he said. iReport.com: How should the U.S. respond?

The pirates have shown no signs of giving in.

The Maersk Alabama was on its way to Mombasa, Kenya, with a cargo of food aid when it was attacked Wednesday. It was the first time in recent history that pirates had targeted an American ship.

The ship was hijacked some 350 miles off Somalia's coast, a distance that used to be considered safe for ships navigating in the pirate-infested waters.

CNN's Mike Mount and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

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question: Who was the captain?

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question: What did the pirates try to do?

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question: what did the pirates use to look for lifeboat?

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question: What happened to the captain?

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