

The wheelchair-bound Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 75, is killed in missile strikes ordered by Israel’s rightwing Ariel Sharon regime.
UK scientists warn vanishing butterfly species is a signal of the earth’s sixth Mass extinction.

Canada’s former deputy premier Sheila Copps adopts the middle name of Kaur as a gesture of thanks to the local Sikh community.
A fresh cycle of violence among the Kuki-Karbi ethnic groups kills 31 in Assam’s Karbi Anglong.
Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel prize medal is among items stolen from his Santiniketan house.

























