Crossings

Stefano Baldini wins the Athens marathon in a race marred by a spectator pushing then race leader Brazilian Vanderlei Lima. Lima won bronze.

M. Natrajan, who steered the indigenous mbt Arjun project, is the new DRDO chief. The two decade-old tank project still has 50 per cent foreign components and is yet to go for full trials.

Kremlin candidate Alu Alkhanov sweeps the Chechnya polls but Moscow was downbeat as terrorists struck—two airlines were downed; rebels took a border school with hundreds of hostages.

Ex-ISRO chairman U.R. Rao, who built "India’s robust space programme", is on the Top 10 list of the US’ Space News.