Al Qaeda No. 2 speaks
Osama bin Laden’s deputy urged Muslims on Monday to attack Jewish and American targets worldwide in retaliation for Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, intensifying an Al Qaeda push to use Arab anger to rally support for the terror network.
Pakistani PM orders judges released
The deposed chief justice emerged from house arrest Monday after Pakistan’s new prime minister ordered police to pull back razor-wire barricades and release judges ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
Rowdy passengers lead to emergency landings
Two passenger jets made unrelated emergency landings in Poland on Monday — one near Katowice and one in Warsaw — to remove rowdy passengers, one of whom claimed to be a terrorist.
Man killed for casting ‘evil eye’ on a relative
Two men have confessed to brutally killing a man who made his living practicing witchcraft because they believed he had put an “evil eye” on a relative, officials near Cancun, Mexico, said Monday.
Bread lines growing
Clashes have been breaking out among Egyptians waiting in long lines for subsidized bread, and the president has ordered the army to start baking more to contain a political crisis in Cairo and elsewhere.
5 wounded in bombing
A car bomb exploded outside a bank in Nazran, Russia, an area plagued by violence, wounding at least 5 people, police said. The blast occurred when a police officer used a remote control to unlock the car, which belonged to him.
THE DIGIT
8 feet, 5 inches
Height of world’s tallest living man, Leonid Stadnik, and apparently a few too many inches to fit comfortably inside a new car presented to him Monday in Kiev, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
FROM NEWS SERVICES
