In Space
Sunita Pandya-Williams, a US Navy pilot will be flight engineer on Expedition 14 to the Int’l Space Station. She’ll travel on STS-116.
Award
Mathematician M.S. Narasimhan, 74, is the co-winner of the King Faisal Prize for his work in establishing the links between maths and physics.
Resigns
CIA director Porter Goss quits amid ‘Hookergate’ rumours. His No. 3, Kyle ‘Dusty’ Foggo, is implicated in some poker ’n prostitutes incidents.
Dies
Filmmaker, rights activist and poet Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, who ushered in the art film movement in Karnataka withSamskara.
