A French woman with an incurable facial tumour who lost a legal challenge seeking euthanasia has died at her home near Dijon at the age of 52.

Jack Kevorkian - once America's most ardent advocate of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients - has ended an eight-year prison sentence apparently determined to wade right back into the right-to-die debate.

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-- A doctor and two nurses at a New Orleans hospital were charged with murder for giving lethal injections to four patients during evacuations after Hurricane Katrina, the state attorney general said on Tuesday. --