| Washington D.C.
A showdown looms: The independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks this week
threatened to subpoena documents the Bush administration has refused to hand over.
Dover, Deleware
Poultry scare: Authorities rushed to test chickens in Delaware this week after an outbreak of avian influenza
was reported on two poultry farms.
Columbus, Ohio
Clue in highway shootings: Police this week got what could be their first clear description of the sniper
who has been stalking highways outside Columbus, Ohio.
Sarasota, Florida
Girl (Carlie brucia, 11) found dead: A Florida whos abduction was caught on videotape by a security camera was found dead last week
in a church parking lot.
Gonaives, Haiti
Uprising spreads quickly: Rebels seized 11 Haitian cities this week, torching police stations and demanding
the resignation of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Washington, D.C.
Rapes reported in Iraq: Dozens of women returning from military duty in the Persian Gulf have reported
being sexually assaulted by their fellow servicemen.
Berlin
Chancellor teetering: German Chanellor Gerhard Schroder quit this week as head of the Social Democrats, saying
that he needed to concentrate on running the country and not on party politics.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Identity crisis: The prime ministers of Slovakia and Slovenia complained this week that the reat of the world
got their two countries confused.
London
Britain's own FBI: Britain has created a new government agency, modeled on the U.S. FBI, that will fight organized
crime.
[b]Paris/b]
Head-scarf ban: France's lower house of parliament this week overwhelmingly approved a law banning the
wearing of religious accessories in public schools.
Munich
Grumpy allies: The U.S. and Europe sniped at each other over the Iraq war once again this week, this time at the annual
Munich security conference of defense and foreign ministers.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mosque not wanted: Centrist and right-wing parties succeeded this week in temporarily blocking the building of
the first mosque in the Slovenian capital.
Moscow
Subway blast: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was certain that Chechen terrorists were to blame
for last week's deadly bomb explosion in the Moscow Metro.
Baghdad
Al Qaida can't recruit: An Islamic militant with ties to al Qaida has complained that the Iraqi people are not
turning against the Americans, despite his best efforts to destablize the country.
Jerusalem
Wall route changed: Israel said this week that it would move parts of its controversial.
Moscow
Lost and found: Ivan Rybkin, a presidential candidate and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin,
disappeared for five days this week, only to resurface in Ukraine.
Pyongyang
Are prisoners gassed? Human-rights activitists said this week that they had evidence to support longstanding
allegations that North Korea has tested chemical weapons on humans.
Manila
Philippine Schwarzenegger: The Phillippine's biggest action hero, known as "Da King," announced this week
that he would run for President.
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