Bike mishap injures Bush

Bike mishap injures Bush
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush suffered cuts and bruises early Saturday afternoon when he fell while mountain biking on his ranch, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
Bush was on the 16th mile of a 17-mile ride when he fell, Duffy said. He was riding with a military aide, members of the Secret Service and his personal physician, Dr. Richard Tubb.
"He had minor abrasions and scratches on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees," Duffy said. "Dr. Tubb, who was with him, cleaned his scratches, said he was fine. The Secret Service offered to drive him back to the house. He declined and finished his ride."
Bush was wearing his bike helmet and a mouth guard when the mishap occurred. Duffy said he didn't know exactly how the accident happened.
Moore wins at Cannes
CANNES, France -- American filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sept. 11 attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" was the first documentary to win Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 1956.
"What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci," Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd.
Blimp crashes
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- A blimp crashed during takeoff Saturday when gusty winds carried it over a fence and into two office buildings, but no one was injured, authorities said.
A ground crew was assisting with the blimp's departure from the North Las Vegas Airport when the incident occurred, police spokesman Tim Bedwell said. The pilot and passenger aboard were not hurt.
The crew tried to use lines to return the blimp to the airport side of the fence when winds again lifted it over and into another office building, Bedwell said. The blimp eventually landed on the second office building.
The A-150 blimp, bearing the Saturn corporate logo, is registered to The Lightship Group, based in Orlando, Fla. It was believed to have been headed to Long Beach, Calif., a Federal Aviation Administration official said.
Gorbachev resigns
MOSCOW -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned Saturday as leader of his Social Democratic Party in a dispute over the direction it was going, according to Russian news reports.
The Social Democratic Party's chairman, Konstantin Titov, had insisted on a political deal with the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, while Gorbachev opposed the move, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
Gorbachev stepped down at a closed door party session in Moscow, Russia's NTV television said.
Gorbachev and his party enjoy little political support in Russia, where the former president is blamed for the Soviet collapse and the chaotic years of transition. Gorbachev is still widely respected in the West for his perestroika reforms of the late 1980s and his moves to improve East-West relations.
Iran reports on nukes
VIENNA, Austria -- Iran has delivered an initial report on its nuclear program to the U.N. atomic watchdog, a key step ahead of an agency meeting next month to assess suspicions that it is covertly trying to make weapons, the agency said Saturday.
The Tehran regime handed over the dossier on Friday to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the documents "should provide broader information about Iran's nuclear activities," IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said.
The Vienna-based agency will work to assess the "correctness and completeness" of the declaration, and IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei will deliver a report to the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors when it meets on June 14, Gwozdecky said.
Iran was obligated to provide the declaration under a so-called additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which allows international inspectors to conduct intrusive unannounced checks of its nuclear facilities. ElBaradei has said his inspectors are getting the access they want in Iran but need additional information.
Sikh is prime minister
NEW DELHI -- Manmohan Singh, the Oxford-educated economist responsible for India's sweeping economic liberalization policies, was sworn in as prime minister Saturday, placing the Congress party back in control of the nation after eight years.
Singh, India's first prime minister from the country's influential Sikh minority, was sworn in by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose family comes from India's large Muslim minority.
His move to the top job ended a week of political turmoil in which Congress leader Sonia Gandhi -- a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty -- declined to become prime minister.
Bush twins graduate
AUSTIN, Texas -- President Bush wasn't the only one who skipped the pomp and circumstance of his daughter's graduation from the University of Texas on Saturday. Jenna Bush did not participate either.
Despite her name being listed on the commencement program, Bush was not among the more than 150 English majors receiving degrees Saturday afternoon at the Austin campus. Attendance at the event is not required to graduate from the university.
Aides have said President Bush and first lady Laura Bush decided to skip their 22-year-old twin daughters' graduations because their presence and that of White House security would be disruptive.
Jenna's sister, Barbara, will pick up a degree in humanities Monday from Yale, her father's alma mater. The family will celebrate with private dinners.
Associated Press