AP - Their hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo's parents appeared quietly resigned Sunday to watching her die but could claim one Easter victory: The severely brain-damaged woman received a drop of communion wine on her tongue her only sustenance in nine days after her husband allowed her to receive the sacrament.
AP - Pope John Paul II delivered an Easter Sunday blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, but the ailing pontiff was unable to speak and managed only to greet the saddened crowd with a sign of the cross, bringing tears to many.
AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq released a video Sunday claiming to show the murder of an Interior Ministry official, while debate raged about religion's place in Iraq's much-anticipated new government as lawmakers were summoned to their second session.
A representative of the parents of Terri Schiavo said Sunday last-ditch appeals will be made in Washington to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted. After a news conference announcing the plan, a woman, saying she was from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades, grabbed the microphone to say Terri Schiavo shoud be allowed to die in peace.
An Arabic-language satellite channel broadcast a videotape Sunday that it said showed images recorded seconds before the explosion that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February.
A group claiming to be al Qaeda in Iraq said it killed an Iraqi Interior Ministry official, according to an unauthenticated video posted Sunday on an Islamist Web site.