Life & Culture -- May 13, 2006

• Columbus remains mysterious figure
• 'Da Vinci Code' to debut at Cannes
• Heat poses major threat to Taj Mahal
• Hollywood friends rally around beleaguered Tom Cruise
• Historical novel by Saddam to be first published in Japan

• Some 1.1 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Ethiopia
• S. Korean prosecutors confirm Hwang Woo-suk's stem cell data manipulated
• WHO confirms first human case of H5N1 in Djibouti