Crossings

Maoist group Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, 69, serving a life sentence in Peru since ’92, is to get a retrial. The group’s guerrilla activities led to over 70,000 deaths in clashes in the ’80s.

Actor Howard Keel, 85, star of hit musicals like Kiss Me Kate and Annie, Get Your Gun, dies.

Romesh Kaluwitharana, 35, pocket-sized Sri Lankan wicketkeeper whose ’96 World Cup exploits with Sanath Jayasuriya changed odi batting styles at the top forever, retires.

India’s Arisha Tany Ayah comes up runner-up in the Miss International Queen 2004 contest for transvestites. The contest had 24 participants.