World Highlights
¤ Officials shut down the Delta Air Lines terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport yesterday after a man ran through a security checkpoint, CNN television said. It said flights were not being allowed to take off from Terminal D, but were being allowed...
¤ Officials shut down the Delta Air Lines terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport yesterday after a man ran through a security checkpoint, CNN television said. It said flights were not being allowed to take off from Terminal D, but were being allowed to land after the security breach. A witness said 600 to 700 people were evacuated. CNN said the man took off his shoes for the security check and ran off without them, setting off the alert.
¤ Tens of thousands of Mexican and other immigrants held a massive rally in Chicago yesterday to protest proposed changes to US immigration laws. Waving flags and carrying signs reading "We're people, not criminals" and "Working hands do not deserve handcuffs," they streamed on foot into the downtown area, overwhelming a square at the federal court house where the rally was held.
¤ Only an official apology by the Danish government to all Muslims for offence caused by the Prophet Mohammad cartoons will prompt the lifting of the boycott of Danish goods, Muslim preachers said yesterday.
¤ A Dutch court handed down sentences of up to 15 years yesterday to a group of nine Islamist militants it found guilty of belonging to a terrorist organisation but acquitted four other suspects.
¤ Bird flu has killed its 22nd human victim in Indonesia, a 12-year-old girl, according to tests by the World Health Organisation's Hong Kong laboratory, an Indonesian health ministry official said yesterday.
¤ The African Union yesterday extended its mission in Darfur until September 30 to break an impasse over the transfer of peacekeeping duties in Sudan's vast west to UN troops.