Headlines from August 6, 2007

Abbas hosts meeting with Olmert, the first summit to be held in the Palestinian Territories since 2000.
With the end a short five years away, Chavez seeks to abolish term limits for Venezuelan presidents.
Spain's ETA separatist group sends new extortion demands--some up to $550,000--to Basque businesses.
When is a baby's drowning death a crime? When should a Tutsi leader start to make you worry?
"Fake Steve Jobs" blogger revealed to be a senior editor at Forbes.
Put the Facebook vs. ConnectU case in perspective with the Guardian's 10 greatest legal battles in technology.
Hello Kitty badge of shame applied to Thai police who commit minor transgressions.
Kids these days: One walks away from a six-story fall, one survives six hours adrift at sea.
In fight for ad dollars, euros, and pounds, foreign newspapers scramble to put English-language content online.
An all-too-short profile of the father of molecular gastronomy.
New IRS regs lead to ATMs invading church lobbies.
“The president was very agitated, speaking French at a loud volume very rapidly.??? Photograph a swimsuit-clad Sarko at your own risk.
Singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood dies, age 78. From 2002: "Who's Lee Hazlewood?"
Aspiring comics bust out their thinking caps, breasts, knitting needles to get noticed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Graphic: Exactly what China can blow up where.
A busy Sunday for Bush and a few lobbyists means the government will now have a much easier time snooping on your conversations.
A month before presidential elections, opposition candidate beats government-backed rival in Beirut.
Return of hoof and mouth in Britain blamed on human error.
Spotlight turns again on de Klerk over what he knew about South African murder squads.
Pentagon has lost track of 190,000 guns given to Iraq.
Islamic belief, however simply or modestly it may be stated, is an extreme position to begin with.
Reasons to believe Sarkozy's "Mediterranean Union" won't come about.
Robert Ludlum titles for the 20th-century music lover.
The value of the C.I.A.’s interrogation and detention program is impossible to evaluate. Inside the agency's black sites.
Questions for a pilot after Brazil's "worst-ever" crash.
Tragic event forces man to spend rest of life confined to office chair.
Newark haunted by homicide, now with three up-and-comers executed in a schoolyard.
The mystery of Douglas Anne Munson, aka Mercedes Lambert, L.A.'s unknown hardboiled master.
Ballet may be a woman, but it's a man who makes all the major artistic decisions.
Musicals performed in Second Life are perhaps not the future of the theater.
Fifty must-watch web video clips.
Blue bloods also have gas.