A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Four arrested in Georgia after radioactive substance seized
TBILISI - Georgia says it has arrested four people and seized a radioactive substance which a pro-government television channel reported was believed to be caesium-137.
Caesium-137 has a wide range of industrial uses and is employed in radiotherapy, but it could also be combined with explosives to create a radiological bomb with the potential to spread radioactive contamination.
The seizure follows the arrest in Georgia in March of two Armenian men accused of smuggling 18g of highly enriched uranium from Armenia into Georgia, both former Soviet republics.
A Georgian interior ministry spokesman said yesterday a "radioactive seizure" had been made in a residential district of the capital, Tbilisi, and four people were in custody. - (Reuters)
Couple run poll on child's abortion
MINNEAPOLIS - A couple from Minnesota have stirred up the debate over abortion and raised questions about their sanity by asking visitors to their website to vote whether they should abort the wife's foetus or not.
So far, 80 per cent of some 75,000 voters voted "give birth" and 20 per cent voted for abortion on birthornot.com website put up by Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30.
The couple have insisted they have the final say but said the public's voice will carry weight on whether to abort the 17-week-old male fetus. Mr Arnold said the couple were "taking this very seriously" while Ms Arnold insisted "it's definitely not a pro-life campaign". - (Reuters)
Actor Wesley Snipes to go to jail
MIAMI - Actor Wesley Snipes (48) has been ordered to start serving a three-year prison sentence for a felony tax conviction after a Florida judge rejected his application for a new trial.
"The defendant Snipes had a fair trial . . . The time has come for the judgment to be enforced," Judge Terrell Hodges said in his ruling.
Revoking bail for the star of the Blade trilogy, the judge yesterday ordered him to report to prison as directed by the US Marshal's Service or Bureau of Prisons.
Snipes's lawyer, Daniel Meachum, told the Orlando Sentinel the ruling was shocking. "Wesley is very disappointed but staying strong and positive." - (Reuters)