PMs clash on runway
Odense: A taxi carrying Matti Vanhanen, the Finnish Prime Minister, crashed into the wing of an aircraft carrying Kjell Magne Bondevik, the Norwegian Prime Minister, at Odense airport. There were no injuries. The two leaders were returning home from a Nordic prime ministers’ meeting in Denmark and Mr Bondevik’s plane was preparing for take-off. The taxi driver told airport officials that he did not see the wing until it was too late. (AFP)
Deadly catch
Stockholm: Two fishermen on a Lithuanian-registered boat died after inhaling toxic fumes from rotting fish. A third man was injured and treated in hospital. The boat had just left the Swedish port of Karlskrona. The nationality of the men is unknown. (AP)
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Constitution vote
Nicosia: Cyprus will debate the EU constitution this week, and parliament is expected to ratify it, despite its rejection by the Netherlands and France and the susbsequent abandonment of referendums by member states such as Britain and Poland. (AFP)
Sainthood inquiry
Rome: The Roman Catholic Church began the inquiry that could lead to the swift canonisation of the late Pope John Paul II. The process was to begin with a service at which officials would swear to inquire diligently into his suitability for sainthood. (AFP)
Schindler gallery
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Warsaw: The building that housed Oskar Schindler’s factory in Cracow during the Second World War is to become a museum of modern art, the local council has announced. Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust. (AFP)
Election inquiry
Tehran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, ordered an inquiry into the presidential election. Hashemi Rafsanjani, who lost to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that he was the victim of “organised intervention”. (AP)
Stirring music
Seattle: The Starbucks chain of coffee shops is to release a CD of ten songs by Bob Dylan recorded at the Gaslight Café in New York in 1962. It includes the earliest live recordings of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall and Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. (AP)
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New frog is found
This sky blue, yellow-bellied mountain frog, named Philautus Asankai, is one of 35 frog species discovered in Sri Lanka, confirming the country’s status as a hotspot for amphibian biodiversity.