Four honor guards who escorted the casket bearing former Philippine president Corazon Aquino stood motionless during the nine-hour and 12-mile funeral procession of the departed leader Wednesday.

Police officer Danilo Malab Jr., 25, army soldier Antonio Cadiente, 23, air force officer Gener Laguindan, 24, and navy officer Edgardo Rodriguez, 37, endured thirst, hunger, rain and the discomfort of not peeing during the unexpected lengthy procession from a church in Manila to a cemetery in Paranaque City.

A woman has been hospitalized in critical condition after being attacked at a friends' home by a pet 200 pound chimpanzee who had appeared in television commercials.

Charla Nash, 55, had been attacked by the chimp, Travis, after she went to Sandra Herold's house to help the woman get Travis back into the house. The chimp had used a key to get out of the house and after Herold was unsuccessful in luring the chimp back into the house she had called Nash.

The former prostitute who had a February tryst with ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer that soon cost him his job, has apologized to Mrs. Spitzer in her first magazine interview after the scandal.

"I'm sorry for your pain," Ashley Dupre said in an interview with People magazine which will hit newsstands Friday.

Culture Club frontman Boy George is free on bail and will next appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Feb. 25 to face allegations that he imprisoned a male escort by chaining him to a wall.

The singer-turned DJ was sent to trial at the Thames Magistrates' Court over allegations that he falsely imprisoned and assaulted the 28-year-old in east London on April 28.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have detained a driver and a man they found hiding in a suitcase.

A CBP officer made the discovery at the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso a little after midnight. The huge suitcase was in the back seat of a 1997 Ford Escort that entered the port from Mexico.