In the World
Auschwitz site joins Facebook
WARSAW, Poland - The memorial museum at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe.The site, which opened this week, already has more than 1,000 "fans." Many left messages in English, Hebrew, and Polish, the majority expressing the sentiment: "Never again."
"This is a kind of an experiment on our side," memorial spokesman Pawel Sawicki said yesterday.
Between 1940 and 1945, about a million people, mostly Jews, were killed or died of starvation, disease, and forced labor at the camp the Nazis built in occupied Poland. - AP
War-crimes trial set for the Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will go on trial starting Oct. 26, the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal announced yesterday.Karadzic faces 11 charges, including two counts of genocide, for allegedly masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. He is charged with orchestrating atrocities during the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and faces a maximum life sentence if convicted by the U.N. court. He has said he is innocent of all charges.
The trial is expected to last three years. - AP
Terror suspects held in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police yesterday detained more than 30 suspects allegedly linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, saying they were planning to stage attacks on NATO facilities as well as U.S. and Israeli missions in the country.Antiterrorism police detained the suspects in simultaneous raids in the cities of Van, Erzurum, Konya, Batman, and Istanbul. They did not say which facilities were the planned targets.
Turkey increased security around all U.S., Israeli, NATO, and other diplomatic missions in the country after al-Qaeda coordinated suicide bombings in 2003 against the British consulate, a British bank, and two Jewish synagogues in Istanbul. The attacks killed 58. - AP
Elsewhere:
At 22 inches tall, Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal hopes to claim the title of world's shortest man. He had to wait until he turned 21 - that was on Wednesday - to mail his application to the Guinness World Record in London. The current record is held by He Pingping of China, 21, who is 29 inches.
Glittering bait for the well-heeled shopper: Harrods department store in London has added gold bars to its merchandise line. The store joined with a Swiss refiner to offer gold bars weighing 27.5 pounds. Gold prices hit a record high $1,072 on Wednesday.
China sentenced three more people to death for murders during riots in in July between Muslim Uighurs and ethnic Han members, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution in the killings of nearly 200.
