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Washington, D.C.
The Bible and the Grand Canyon: A battle over religion has broken out in the Grand Canyon.

Plano, Texas
A new kind of Episcopalian: Conservative Episcopalians meeting in Texas this week said they would not sever ties with the national church over last year's consecration of an openly gay bishop.

Jackson, Mississippi
Pickering joins bench: President Bush installed Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering Sr. on a federal appeals court last week, bypassing Democratic opposition by acting while Congress was in recess.

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
New 9/11 suspect: FBI agents believe that a prisoner at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay was meant to be the "20th hijacker" in the September 11 terrorist attacks, Newsweek reported this week.

Minneapolis
Northwest fesses up: Northwest Airlines last week admitted that it provided information on millions of passengers to the government for secret research on air security.

Port-au-Prince
Protests intensify: Thousands marched through Haiti's capital this week, shouting for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign.

London
Mellowing out on pot: Possession of small amounts of marijuana is no longer punishable in Britain as of this week, at least for first-time offenders.

Stockholm
Art critic: Israel's ambassador to Sweden was thrown out of a national museum this week for vandalizing an artwork that he said glorified Palestinian suicide bombers.

Nantes, France
Attack on top Muslim: A bomb destroyed the car of France's first Muslim governor this week, just foru days after he was appointed to his post.

Madrid
Childhood never ends: A disabled father must pay a quarter of his pension to support his 25-year-old son, a Spanish court ruled this week.

Paris
Here comes Starbucks: The Seattle coffee giant Starbucks opened its first shop in Paris this week, offering huge papers cups of lattes-to-go to a people used to sipping express from China.

Amsterdam
Paying for the pill: The Netherlands has ended its decades-long policy of providing women with free birth control.

Jerusalem
Rabin killer to wed: Israelis erupted in protest this week over a report that the man who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin planned to get married in prison.

Islamabad
Nuclear secrets sold: Eight scientists and officials in Pakistan's nuclear program were arrested this week for allegedly supplying nuclear technology to Iran and Libya.

Ho Chi Minh City
Bird flu strikes: A type of avian flu sweeping bird populations in Asia has leaped to humans, killing five people in Vietname.

Tripoli
Arms inspectors return: The U.S. and U.N. reached an agreement this week on how to dismantle Libya's illegal weapons programs.

Baghdad
Biggest blast in months: A suicide bomber blew u a truck outside the U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad this week, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100, mostly Iraqis.

Sagatho, Afghanistan
Did U.S. kil civilians? Afghans kill civilians? Afghans and U.S. officials were at odds this week over an air raid in southern Afghanistan.