Scotland Yard has arrested eight people in London who had half a tonne of fertilizer in their possession. In Spain authorities have arrested two more suspects and released three, bringing the total to 21 arrested and 14 charged.
On Iraq, Secretary General Kofi Anann has fired his chief of global security and penalized other staff members over the failure to take adequate security precautions that led to the bombing of the UN building, killing 22 people including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the High Commissioner for Human Rights. British foreign secretary Jack Straw has commented that the UN charter will not be changed to allow for preemptive military strikes like those called on Iraq.
US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice has agreed (finally) to testify before the 9/11 commission, so long as the White House receives assurances in writing that doing this does not create a precedent.
The UN has halted food deliveries to the Gaza Strip because of restrictions place on them by Israel. The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militia released a statement declaring that the occupied territories were off limits to American diplomats meeting with Ariel Sharon because of the UN veto against condemning the assassination of Ahmed Yasin. 10 000 protesters marched in Galilee for Land Day and against the assassination today. The Economist talks about whether anyone can get the peace process back on track. Ariel Sharon is getting ready for a convention of his Likud party, where its unlikely that he'll bring up either the Gaza Strip pullout plan or his legal problems. The government has also refused to grant residence visas to 130 Catholic Church delegates, straining relations between it and the Vatican.
In an appeal for increased foreign aid to Afghanistan, the United Nations has warned that the country could fall into crisis and become dependent on the illegal drug trade if its needs are not met.
- Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich have found out that bats are excellent statisticians.
- An astronomer from the University of Leicester has warned that the loss of Hubble will not only hurt visual exploration, but ultraviolet exploration as well as Hubble is the only telescope able to view images in that spectrum.
- Astronomers may have found ten black holes in the center of the Andromeda galaxy.
- Researchers at Imperial College are working on how to accomplish gene therapy on unborn children.
- According to the presenters at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in Orlando, cleaning up your place will not only make it look nice, but will also reduce your risk of cancer.
- Two professors from Harvard Business School have completed an analysis showing that file sharing has no little on CD sales.
- 'Index theory,' a theory that discovers whether an equation has a solution, has won the Abel Prize, the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
- An article on all the wonderful things you can do with the new Mac OS.
- Slate posts a good article on how pro-choicers need to recognize that they can't get along without using the word fetus in legislation.
- BBC Correspondent Alistair Cooke died today at age 95.
- According to the group Global Witness, the international diamond industry is failing to comply with measures aimed at curbing the sales of conflict diamonds.
- Chinese authorities have detained the mothers of three students killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre for unknown reasons.
- Youth incarceration has reached its lowest point in seven years in Canada.
- FBI documents on John Kerry have been stolen from a historian's home in California.
- If you're bored today, try igniting the explosives under a jeep to hit floaty-alien things.
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