Between 5,000 and 6,000 participants take part in the Critical Mass bicyclist ride as part of the 2004 Republican National Convention Protest Activity . The monthly NYC Critical Mass ride usually attracts about 1500 riders. Police eventually arrested 264 people for deliberately blockading roads during the event. This is the first time the NYPD made any significant arrests of Critical Mass participants. (NYC-IMC)
Interbrew completes its merger with Ambev . Both were among the top five largest breweries in the world, and together they will become the largest, when measured by volume. The merged company will be called InBev(Bloomberg)
The Interior Minister of France announces that the number of Anti-Semitic attacks in France this year is more than double that of the same period last year. (Reuters)
