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refuses a petition by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asking for an immediate ruling on the constitutionality of Same-sex Marriage laws and a Cease And Desist order against San Francisco's granting of Marriage License s to same-sex couples. (365Gay)

In an angry public exchange, Yasser Arafat calls Fatah official Nasser Yousef a "traitor" and hurls a microphone at him. (Al Bawaba) (Maariv)

International Space Station crew Michael Foale and Alexandr Kaleri perform the first ever Spacewalk involving the station's entire crew; the spacewalk is cut short by a malfunction in Kaleri's Spacesuit . (BBC) (ABC)

Shoko Asahara , the leader of a Japan ese cult that gassed the Tokyo subway in 1995, is Sentenced To Death by Hanging . (BBC)

The U.S. Justice Department says it will move to block Oracle Corporation 's hostile $9.4 billion takeover bid for larger rival PeopleSoft , saying a merger of the two largest Accounting and Human Resources Software companies in the U.S. would hurt competition. (SF Chronicle) (Toronto Star)

Iran ian state radio reports Osama Bin Laden captured. United States officials discount the reports. (ORF) (Iran Mania) (AP)