Just a quick one...

I don't have a lot of time today, so I'll just summarize a few interesting things I came across:

- The UN warns Israel over the demolition of Palestinian housing.
- Hamid Karzai signs the new Afghan constitution, paving the way for elections.
- In what seems to be a space exploration in other countries series, the New York Times has an article about India's space program.
- Iran will put al-Qaida suspects on trial.
- The Iranian parliament approved changes to electoral law preventing the Guardian Council from disqualifying sitting MPs unless they had been convicted of a criminal offence. Unfortunately, the Guardian Council vetoed the bill.
- NASA has taken some more cool Mars pictures.
- The Guardian wonders if water necessarily equals life.
- A German company announces that it will build the world's largest solar power plant.
- Scientists rebuff the argument that recent climate change is caused by variations in cosmic rays as opposed to human activities.
- An Economist article on the problems Canada faces with a high value currency.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on India to join forces with his country to change the way in which global trade is conducted.