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BOMBAY BOMB ATTACK

India - Eight bombs exploded in first-class compartments of packed Bombay commuter trains Tuesday, killing at least 147 people and wounding hundreds in a well-coordinated terror attack on the heart of a city that embodies India's global ambitions.

PROTESTERS TRASH TIMES

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can aid the enemy in a time of war". Dozens of protesters yesterday denounced The New York Times for disclosing details of anti-terror efforts by the Bush administration. "Freedom of speech is a precious thing in this country . . .

The paper crossed the line".

40 AFGHAN TALIBAN KILLED

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more than 40 suspected Taliban in a ground and air assault on a militant stronghold in the south of the country yesterday, the U.S. military said.

CHECH-MATE

MOSCOW - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev was killed yesterday when a dynamite-laden truck exploded in his convoy. Basayev, 41, was behind some of Russia's worst terror attacks, including the seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002 in which dozens of hostages and militants died, the Beslan school hostage-taking that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.

EINSTEIN WAS TRUE PHYS-SEX GENIUS

Being faithful to his wives - and 10 girlfriends - was a matter of relativity for Albert Einstein, new documents show. Einstein freely discussed his affairs - and complained of being chased by the love-crazed women - in letters to his second wife, who was also his cousin, and even to his stepdaughter. "Out of all the dames, I am in fact attached only to Mrs. L., who is absolutely harmless and decent," he wrote to Margot. "I don't care what people are saying about me, but for mother and Mrs. M it is better that not every Tom, Dick and Harry gossip about it."

The author of the Theory of Relativity donated his personal papers to the university before he died in 1955. Margot gave it another 1,300 of his letters, with the stipulation that they couldn't be made public until 20 years after her death, which came July 8, 1986.