The US FAA announces it will attempt to require a fuel tank Inerting System in most large airliners in an effort to prevent fuel tank explosions such as the one which apparently destroyed TWA Flight 800 in 1996 . The order could take two years to complete and then would require a retrofit of about 3,800 large Boeing and Airbus jets over the next seven years. (Newsday)(NYT)
A CNN survey finds that children made more than 11,000 allegations of Sexual Abuse by CatholicPriest s. The 4,450 accused priests represent about 4 % of the 110,000 priests who served during the 52 years covered by the study. Nearly 3 %, or 133 of the priests, had 10 or more allegations. (CNN)
Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, a top Vatican official arrives in Moscow for sensitive talks with the Russian Orthodox hierarchy, which accuses the Catholic Church of aggressive proselytizing in traditionally Orthodox lands. (NYT)(Russian Orthodox Church)
An outbreak of Dengue Fever kills 91 people in Indonesia and infects thousands more. Health officials report that 4,500 people have been hospitalized for the Mosquito -borne Disease , mostly in the capital and other parts of East Java , including the city of Yogyakarta . The number hospitalized is double that of last year. (BBC)(NYT)
Judge James L. Warner postpones any decision to block the city and county of San Francisco, California from issuing Marriage License s to same-sex couples and to void the 2,464 Same-sex Marriage s that were performed in the city since February 12 . This was on the grounds that the Proposition 22 Legal Defense And Education Fund 's order for San Francisco to "cease and desist issuing marriage licenses to and/or solemnizing marriages of same-sex couples; to show cause before this court..." had an improper semicolon; to do both, rather than one or the other, would have exceeded the judge's jurisdiction. (MSNBC)
