Hurricane Kills At Least 15

Emergency workers combing the wreckage left by Hurricane Charley say the storm killed at least 15 people in Florida, most of them in Charlotte County.

The worst storm to hit the state in a dozen years destroyed scores of homes along the Gulf Coast as it hit land Friday.

Charley roared through about 30 mobile home communities with winds of up to 230 km/hr, bringing with it ocean surges of more than four metres. It's eye passed directly over the town of Punta Gorda.

Many streets in the community of 15,000 remained inaccessible to emergency vehicles on Saturday, officials said.

Truce talks aimed at ending the fighting between Shia militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces in Najaf broke down Saturday, Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said.

Czeslaw Milosz, a poet and Nobel laureate who was a prominent symbol for anti-communist dissidents in Poland, has died at age 93. Milosz died Saturday at his home in Krakow, in southern Poland, according to his assistant, Agnieszka Kosinska.