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BBC News with Neil Nunes.
The Head of Homeland Security in the United States, Michael Chertoff, has promised the six men accused of organizing the September 11th attacks in 2001 a fair trial. Mr. Chertoff was speaking after the Pentagon announced that it was bringing former charges of murder and conspiracy against the six, who include the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
"It's always been envisioned that there would be trials and military commissions with full due process and defense lawyers and you know all of the fundamental rights that would bring to justice those who are responsible for one of the worst war crimes in world history."
Prosecutors say they would seek the death penalty against the defendants who are being held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp where their trial by special military commissions could start later this year.
The United States Justice Department says four people have been arrested on charges connected with passing secret information to China. One case involves documents about American arms sales to Taiwan and other centered on the alleged theft of sensitive information about aerospace projects. And Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein, said the incident was proof of the aggressive efforts by China to obtain American secrets.
"The threat is very simple. It's a threat to our national security and to our economic position in the world, a threat that is posed by the relentless efforts of foreign intelligence services to penetrate our security systems and steal our most sensitive military technology and information."
Europe finally has its first permanent laboratory in space after astronauts attached a European research module to the International Space Station. The franchised laboratory costs nearly two billion dollars to build. Andy Gallagher has this report.
This is a significant moment for the European Space Agency. The Columbus Lab should have been orbiting the earth back in 2002, but years of delays postponed its arrival until now. The Columbus Lab is Europe's first permanent base in space and it'll play an important role as part of NASA's plans to return humans to the moon. But the installation wasn't easy. German astronaut, Hans Schlegel, had to be replaced at the last minute after he became ill, and it took an exhausting seven hour spacewalk before the Columbus Lab finally became part of the space station.
Doctors in Australia say they are very hopeful that the President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, will recover from bullet wounds he received during an attack on Monday at his home near the Timorese capital, Dili. Mr. Ramos-Horta was flown for treatments to a hospital in Darwin after being hit three times.
The Pakistani ambassador to Kabul has disappeared as he was driving to Afghanistan. Tariq Azizuddin was traveling by road from Peshawar in Pakistan to Kabul and had been expected to change cars at the Afghan border but failed to turn up.
World News from the BBC.
The British Foreign Office has confirmed that a former head of the MI6 Intelligence Agency will be called next week as a witness at the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Sir Richard Dearlove was the agency's director of operations when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris together with her companion, Dodi Al Fayed. Mr. Fayed's father, Mohamed, has long claimed the crash was a plot orchestrated by MI6. Peter Hunt has this report.
One of Mohamed Al Fayed's central allegations is that the security services in cahoots with Prince Philip conspired to murder Diana because she was pregnant with Dodi Fayed's child. Sir Richard Dearlove, who was known as C, when he was the head of the organization, will tackle these claims head-on next week. In a statement, issued to the Foreign Office, the secret intelligence service and Sir Richard said they welcomed the opportunity to refute the allegations of MI6 involvement in the accident which led to the couple's death. At the start of next week, the jury will hear very different evidence from Mr. Al Fayed himself when he takes the stand.
Reports from South Korea say a man arrested on Monday has admitted starting a fire which destroyed the country's greatest cultural treasure, the Namdaemun Gate in the capital, Seoul. South Koreans have been stunned by the loss of the gate, a wooden structure, built more than 600 years ago. The Namdaemun Gate was one of the few buildings in Seoul to survive the Japanese occupation and the Korean War in the last century.
The computer software giant Microsoft has described as unfortunate the rejection of its takeover bid for the Internet company Yahoo. In a statement, Microsoft said its offer of nearly 42 billion dollars was full and fair and that the company would continue to try persuading Yahoo shareholders to accept it. Earlier, Yahoo said the unsolicited bid substantially underrated its financial value, as well as its global brand and worldwide customers.
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