Zimbabwe 's only opposition newspaper, the ''Daily News'' ceases publication following a court order that it breached the ''Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act'' introduced by President Robert Mugabe in 2002 . The closure follows an armed raid on the paper's offices by police. One reporter told Reuters that the action was an "unprecedented attack on press freedom". {Link without Title}
today ends 15-year old sanctions against Libya. The sanctions were imposed following the Lockerbie Disaster . The sanctions are lifted following payment by Libya (following an admission of responsibility) of $2.7 billion to the families of those who died in the bombing.
Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was interred next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
