A Moscow court today rejected six of the 24 lawsuits filed against the city government for moral and material damages suffered in the terrorist seizure of a Moscow theatre.

Another woman taken hostage in the Moscow theatre siege has died, bringing the death toll to 120.

THE lights burn constantly. The chairs are beds and the orchestra pit is a toilet. There is no toilet paper or running

Negotiations between Russian officials and Chechen gunman in a Moscow theatre were launched again today after four mediators waving a white flag entered the building to seek an end to the desperate standoff.