Global: WHO chief dies

Dr. Lee Jong Wook, the head of the World Health Organization whose gamble to greatly expand AIDS treatment to the poor around the world helped give new life to hundreds of thousands of people, died suddenly Monday, two days after emergency surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain. He was 61. Dr. Lee had served less than three years of a five-year term as WHO director general, where he faced challenges including SARS, avian influenza, preparation for a possible human influenza pandemic, tobacco control and childhood immunization.