Maysun Al-Atawana , director of family and children affairs in the Palestinian Authority 's social affairs ministry, claims that Israel i shelling of heavily populated suburbs was targeting children. She noted that 35.5% of casualties among the Palestinian s wounded since start of the Aqsa Intifada in late September 2000 were children including 1.4% less than five years old. (palestine-info.co.uk)
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, CalPERS , a major shareholder in The Walt Disney Company , indicated that it will withhold its votes from Disney chief executive Michael Eisner at next week's shareholders' meeting, a new sign of a growing rebellion against Eisner's leadership, (TheStreet)
The controversial collapses and dies of a massive heart attack while viewing the harrowing Crucifixion scene. (KAKE)
In the northern Uganda city of Lira, protests and riots cause at least nine deaths after the Ugandan army announces it killed 21 members of the Lord's Resistance Army , a rebel group, in retaliation for an attack on a refugee camp at Barlonyo. (CNN)
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia , who recently made a statement in support of Same-sex Marriage , responded to an "insulting" e-mail by announcing he is not Gay . The king is 81 years old and has 14 children. (Telegraph)
announces that the first charges are to be filed against two of the six hundred detainees of the detention camp, but Human Rights groups have had their request to observe the Military Tribunal s turned down. The defendants are named as Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman Al-Bahlul and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Qosi , both alleged to be Al-Qaeda members and charged with "conspiracy to commit War Crime s". (BBC) The Pentagon also confirms that even if cleared by the tribunals, the defendants may still not be released. (BBC)
