Ex-PM shows no signs of emerging from 5-year coma
(NEWSER) - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is back home on his ranch after nearly 5 years in a secure hospital ward, still comatose and attached to a respirator. The former general, whose controversial leadership was ended by a series of strokes in early 2006, was taken from his hospital in Tel Aviv to his family ranch in southern Israel, AP reports. Sharon has been in what medical staff describe as a "limbo" state—uncommunicative, but responsive to basic stimuli and TV. More»
