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LONDON — Thousands die as airliners explode over the Atlantic Ocean and North American cities. The global economy reels. Relations between London and Washington lie in tatters.
Authorities sketched out what would have been dramatic consequences of a thwarted plot led by three British Muslims to bomb at least seven trans-Atlantic jetliners with explosives hidden inside soda bottles.
The attack would have killed at least 2,000 jetliner passengers and hundreds more on the ground if bombs had been detonated over U.S. and Canadian cities.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, were convicted Monday in what was planned as the deadliest terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001.
Serial killer caught: police
MILWAUKEE — Police have arrested a man they believe is connected to the slayings of nine women dating back to 1986, based on a DNA sample he provided in response to a warrant just last week.
Walter E. Ellis, 49, was taken into custody after a struggle at a motel on Saturday, police Chief Edward Flynn said Monday.
Police said Ellis’s DNA was found on the bodies of nine women who were killed between 1986 and 2007 on the city’s north side. Investigators believe eight of the women were prostitutes and one was a runaway. They ranged in age from 16 to 41.
Fined for wearing trousers
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A woman journalist was convicted Monday of public indecency for wearing trousers, but was spared a sentence of flogging. A defiant Lubna Hussein said she would not pay a $200 fine and would take a month in prison instead to protest Sudan’s draconian morality laws.
The 43-year old journalist has set out to challenge the police and courts since her arrest in July by insisting the case go to trial. Her prosecution — and the prospect that she could get the full sentence of 40 lashes — drew an international outcry.
Port expansion attacked
ROME — Italian authorities plan to expand Venice’s port into a bustling shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the treasured city built on water, the United Kingdom-based conservation group Venice in Peril said Monday.
Ferry survivor rescued
MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine air force helicopter plucked to safety Monday a woman who drifted for about 30 hours in choppy seas without food or water after the sinking of a ferry that left nine dead. Only one of the nearly 1,000 people who were on board is now unaccounted for.
Housewife Lita Casumlum, 39, was found bobbing with a life jacket about 13 kilometres from where the 7,269-ton Superferry 9 sank on Sunday.
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