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...believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named by the Bank of England on Thursday (which did not include Stewart-Whyte) was Oliver Savant, 25, who now goes by Ibrahim Savant and is reportedly a newlywed and expectant...
...European officials blame Asian shipping companies, which skirt quota rules by transferring tuna directly from industrial ranches in the Mediterranean to Japan-bound ships, without ever touching land and without reporting the size of their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since...
...Many of these passengers were remarkably good-natured. Considering other U.S.-bound flights from London were either cancelled or severely delayed, they were lucky to land at Dulles at 12:55 p.m. - less than two hours behind schedule...
...Department of Homeland Security officials quickly alerted law enforcement agencies around the country to the peroxide-based liquid explosives the London plotters planned to bring aboard the American-bound planes. An alert the FBI and DHS sent out Thursday to state and local law enforcement agencies - which is classified "For Official Use Only" and was obtained by TIME - warns them that the peroxide-based explosives could also be employed in future attacks here...
...Next to the highway, a dozen station hands and visitors are helping to load a double-decker, three-carriage road train; 1,200 hooves are bound for nearby Alice Downs and then Wyndham for shipping. As ringers crack whips, three women are prodding mickeys (young bulls) through a series of pens; red dust and deep-voiced murmurs of "Get on" and "Go" fill the air. Burton, fag in hand, strides about. The mickeys are the most economical stock; there's little price premium in fattening them up. "The whole operation is about turning grass into T-bones," he says...