An internal memo suggests that Apple Computer has paid off its remaining 3 million dollars debts and is now debt-free with 4.8 billion dollars in cash.
At least 200 people are reported to have been killed in Iran after rail wagons carrying Sulphur , Petrol and Fertiliser derailed and exploded. The accident happened near the town of Neyshabur in Khorasan province. (BBC)
in two vehicles killed 11 Iraqi s and wounded 58 foreign troops and 44 Iraqis near the entrance to a Polish -manned coalition logistics base near the town of Hilla in central Iraq south of Baghdad . (BBC)
Israel is condemned by the International Committee Of The Red Cross for the location of the Israeli West Bank Barrier . The aid agency declared that the barrier at its current position was contrary to international humanitarian law and had caused extensive damage to Palestinian land and property and deprived thousands of Palestinians access to water, health care and education. (ICRC)
A federal appeals court in the United States ruled that district court judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, presiding judge in the much-watched Martha Stewart trial, was in the wrong in barring the media from the Voir Dire process at the beginning of that trial. (AP)
Scientists at NASA and the ESA witness a supermassive Black Hole in Galaxy RXJ1242-11 graze, partially consume, and tear apart a star. This is the first time such a phenomenon has been observed. (NASA)
