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Addressing the death of Kenneth Lay , U.S. President George W. Bush states that he hopes Lay, one of the men convicted in the collapse of Enron , "was right with the Lord ". (FoxNews.com)
The long-range missile launched during North Korea 's Missile Test was aimed at a point in the ocean close to the U.S. state of Hawaii . (Reuters)
The Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station as part of the STS-121 mission. Checks of the orbiter have revealed no damage from foam falling off the external fuel tank during launch. (Spaceflight Now/CBS)
Great Britain 's young people are for the first time spending more time looking at Internet sites than watching TV , a new survey has revealed. (Daily Mail) In Mexico 's presidential election , PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he will file a legal challenge against the results of the ongoing official vote count that have him loscing to the PAN 's Felipe Calderón by 0.57 percentage points. (BBC News)
A United States Military AH-64 Apache helicopter made an emergency landing in South Korea . There was no injury or damage to the helicopter. (Associated Press)
The New York Court of Appeals rules in a 4-2 decision that gay marriage is not allowed under state law. (Newsday )
Taiwan plans to test a missile capable of hitting mainland China . This has alarmed the island's main ally, the United States . (Reuters) (Agence France-Presse) South Korean media states that there are three or four short to medium range missiles on the launch pad in North Korea , ready for launch . North Korea has now threatened to do so.(Associated Press) (Associated Press) The Nathula Pass between India and China , sealed during the Sino-Indian War in 1962, reopens after 44 years. (Zee News ), (BBC)
Sectarian violence in Iraq : A car bomb explodes outside a Shi'ite Muslim shrine near the holy city of Najaf in Iraq , killing at least seven people. (Reuters) [permanent dead link ] An explosion, believed to be caused by a bomb, killed at least eight people in a minibus in the city of Tiraspol , in Transnistria , a breakaway region of Moldova . (BBC)
Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Operation Summer Rains ):
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