Boston

Kennedy still at loss over brothers’ deaths

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remembered his slain brothers Sunday, saying he felt loss, but also inspiration, when thinking of them.

Kennedy, D-Mass., was asked on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation” about his thoughts as the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approached on Saturday.

Kennedy said he felt a “continued deep-seated sense of loss” from the deaths of his brothers and other family members.

President Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968, in Los Angeles.

Kennedy said that he continued “to be inspired by them — their strong appeal to bring out really the best in terms of our ideals and our values and the importance of trying to give something back to the country.”

New York City

Master ties computer in chess showdown

World chess champion Garry Kasparov claimed a crucial victory Sunday in the third of a four-game match with his computerized rival X3D Fritz, tying the first virtual-reality showdown at 1.5 points each.

The match pitted Kasparov against the 12-year-old program that has recently been developed into a virtual-reality game by X3D Technologies, a sponsor of the match.

“It was just a dominating performance by Kasparov,” said John Fernandez, X3D’s chess consultant. “He disarmed the computer’s biggest weapon, which is its calculating ability.”

The match ends Tuesday.

Afghanistan

French U.N. employee killed

One of two Afghan men on a motorcycle opened fire Sunday on a marked United Nations’ car, killing a French aid worker, the first international U.N. staff member slain in postwar Afghanistan. Police identified the captured assailants as Taliban militants.

Bettina Goislard, 29, an employee of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was shot at close range at a shopping bazaar in Ghazni, the capital of Ghazni province in central Afghanistan. Her Afghan driver was wounded. The two suspects in the shooting are in custody.

Also Sunday, a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a U.N. vehicle carrying three Afghan U.N. employees in the eastern province of Paktia. They escaped injury, officials said.

France

Shipyard town mourns dead

St. Nazaire’s 68,000 residents were in mourning Sunday, a day after 15 people fell to their deaths while visiting the nearly completed Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest and costliest ocean liner.

As many as 32 people were injured — six of them seriously — when a metal gangway linking the dock and the hulking ship suddenly collapsed, sending people plunging at least 50 feet to the concrete floor of a dry dock. The liner is set to sail in January.