The owner of an independent radio station in Phnom Penh was charged with inciting criminal violence with false reports. The station broadcast a caller's false description of attacks on Cambodians in Thailand, which Cambodian officials blame for rioting in Phnom Penh. (Independent (UK)) A Thai newspaper reported that Thailand had been prepared to invade Cambodia to protect its citizens. (Nation (Thailand))

Italian police arrested 28 suspected Pakistani terrorists in Naples following a routine check for illegal immigrants. Officials said they had found explosives and maps identifying American and NATO targets. Pakistan said the accusations of terrorism were unfounded and that the Pakistanis were in Italy legally. (BBC)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would seek to make its drug review and approval process more efficient, reducing the time and expense associated with bringing new drugs and medical devices to market. New drug applications and approvals have declined in recent years, but experts weren't sure how large a difference the proposed plan would make. (Reuters)

UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, posted a $1.5 billion loss for the last quarter of 2002. The bankrupt air carrier lost a total of $3.2 billion for the year, and has lost $5.5 billion since the second half of 2000. (MSNBC/AP)

A land mine destroyed a bus carrying Afghan villagers to Kandahar, killing at least 18. The Afghan army said rebel fighters were behind the attack. (CNN)

Turkey said it had moved more than 10,000 troops to its border region with Iraq. Turkish officials have expressed opposition to war with Iraq, and have yet to indicate if Turkey will allow the U.S. to use its territory as a base of operations if there is a war. (Reuters)

Australian police said that suspects held after last fall's nightclub bombings in Bali had also planned a second bombing in Indonesia later in the year. (BBC)

A study linked a recent rise in the temperature of tropical ocean waters in the western Pacific and recent droughts in parts of the U.S., Europe and southern Asia. Scientists believe the higher ocean temperatures are due to global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases. (Nature)

U.S. officials said that a manager at an Immigration and Naturalization Service data processing center had addressed a backlog of some 90,000 documents by illegally ordering to have them destroyed. (NYT)

The U.S. Department of State's database of visa applications, describing some 50 million applicants and containing some 20 million photographs, will be linked to a computer system accessible to the FBI, other intelligence agencies and local police departments, officials said. The database contains non-classified information, but will make it easier for law enforcement officials to access it. (NYT)

Bush administration officials said President Bush would propose new retirement savings plans, to replace some existing plans, possibly allowing Americans to save up to $15,000 each year and later withdraw funds tax free. (NYT)

The U.S. Commerce Department reported that the U.S. gross domestic product grew at a 0.7 percent annual rate over the last three months of 2002. The GDP rose 2.4 percent over the year as a whole. (WaPost, NYT)

U.S. officials said intelligence satellites had detected truck activity in North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex, near where the Koreans have stored spent plutonium fuel rods since 1994. The satellite data is insufficient to determine what the trucks have been doing, however. The rods could be used to produce enough weapons-grade plutonium for six or more nuclear weapons. (NYT, WaPost)

Botswana said it is unable to cope with massive numbers of illegal immigrants from neighboring Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is suffering from food shortages, economic woes and political turmoil. (BBC)

Envoys from the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Spain and Portugal encouraged Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and opposition leaders to agree to new presidential elections and an end to the opposition strike. Support for the strike has weakened but state oil workers have said they will not return to work until Chavez agrees to a new election. (Reuters)

The four-person crew of a U.S. military helicopter died when the helicopter crashed on a routine training mission near the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. (MSNBC/AP)

The Israeli army killed five Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including Fadi Jabber, the leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. The army also imposed a curfew in Hebron as part of an effort to arrest suspected militants, and shut down two local TV stations and a radio station. Israeli forces clashed with villagers after destroying a house near Jenin and destroyed three houses and two water wells in a town in the Gaza Strip as well, according to Palestinian reports. (Ha'aretz)

Richard Reid, who confessed to attempting to blow up an airliner with explosives concealed in his shoes, was sentenced to life in prison. (Fox News)

Fears of violence in Ivory Coast's capital, Abidjan, have sent foreigners packing. Supporters of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo have blamed France for the peace deal agreed to in Paris last weekend, which they feel gave too much power to the rebel factions in the Ivorian civil war. Thousands of Europeans reside in Abidjan. (Reuters)

Cambodia officially apologized to Thailand and offered compensation for any losses resulting from yesterday's riots in Phnom Penh. The rioting, which was apparently provoked by a remark made by a TV character two years ago, destroyed the Thai embassy, and hundreds of Thais fled the country. (BBC)

U.S. officials said an investigation had concluded that Indonesian soldiers were responsible for the killing of two American teachers in Indonesia last August. The soldiers are believed to have wanted more money from the teachers' American employer, which also operates a large gold and copper mine in the area. (NYT)

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service announced a $37 million computer system designed to track recipients of student visas in the United States. There are nearly 1 million foreign students in the country. (WaPost)

Bush administration officials said the administration's plans to disclose intelligence data concerning banned Iraqi weapons programs were intended to demonstrate that war with Iraq is necessary — not to facilitate inspections. The White House indicated it was looking toward a Feb. 14 date, when U.N. weapons inspectors will file another report, for a U.N. Security Council decision on Iraq. (WaPost, NYT)

Jordan said it would allow the U.S. military to fly over Jordanian air space and launch search-and-rescue missions from its airfields in the event of a war with Iraq. Jordanian air space lies directly between the Mediterranean Sea and Iraq. (WaPost)

Both Republicans and Democrats expressed concerns about President Bush's forthcoming proposal for Medicare reform. The proposal, which has yet to be clarified, appears to require senior citizens to forgo traditional Medicare benefits in order to qualify for prescription drug coverage. (NYT, WaPost)

The American woman an English king abdicated his throne for in 1936 turned out to have cheated on him with a car salesman. (NYT, WaPost)

AOL Time Warner reported $99 billion in charges for the year 2002, reflecting accounting rules changes and depreciation of its America Online unit. AOL also reported that Vice Chairman Ted Turner would step down in May. (CNet)

Private banks in Venezuela, which had been keeping limited hours and restricting transactions for several weeks, ended their participation in the country's 8-week-old general strike. (Reuters)

U.S. stock markets rose moderately as investors were reassured by the Federal Reserve's decision not to adjust interest rates in anticipation of further economic concerns or war. The Dow gained 0.27 percent, closing at 8,110.71; the Nasdaq gained 1.19 percent to reach 1,358.11; and the S&P 500 closed at 864.37, up 0.68 percent. (Reuters)

A large explosion at a pharmaceutical supply plant in Kinston, N.C., killed several workers and wounded several others. (CNN)

Republican politicians said President Bush's State of the Union address was great, but Democrats said they still didn't think much of his economic policies. Polls indicated the American people felt more or less the same as they did yesterday. (MSNBC)

Remarks attributed to a Thai actress demanding that control of the Angkor Wat temples be returned to Thailand set off protests in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, where the Thai embassy was set on fire. The actress said the quote in question was taken from a character she played on television two years ago. (BBC)

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose Likud party won an unexpected 37 seats in Israel's 120-member parliament in yesterday's election, appealed for unity in building a coalition government. Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna, whose left-wing party won 19 seats, said Labor would not support a Likud-led government. (CNN)

Maoist rebels in Nepal and the Nepalese government both said they have agreed to a ceasefire and the commencement of peace talks. Nepal has suffered from nearly seven years of civil war, which has killed over 7,000. (BBC)

The U.S. military said it had activated an additional 15,718 Reserve troops. There are now a total of 94,624 U.S. reservists on active duty. (Reuters)

White House officials said that the federal budget deficit could surpass $300 billion this year. (NYT, USAT/AP)

The New York Times reported that delays in approving security clearance have prevented thousands of refugees already approved by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from immigrating to the United States. Some 17,000 such refugees are being held in a poorly supported refugee camp in war-torn Kenya. (NYT)

President Bush delivered the president's annual State of the Union address. He proposed that the U.S. accelerate tax cuts to address economic concerns; spend $400 billion over 10 years to reform Medicare; spend $15 billion over five years for AIDS relief in Africa; and offer $1.2 billion for research in hydrogen-powered automobiles. He also said that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the world. (WhiteHouse.gov)

Promising corporate outlooks and consumer confidence reports pushed U.S. stocks higher. The Dow rose 1.25 percent, to 8,089.05; the Nasdaq climbed 1.29 percent to close at 1,342.32; and the S&P 500 finished at 858.56, up 1.31 percent. (Reuters)

The Ivory Coast army told President Laurent Gbagbo that it would not accept the incorporation of rebel factions into a coalition government as had been agreed in Paris last weekend. Protests in Abidjan also lead to violence between Christian supporters of Gbagbo and a Muslim group from the northern part of the country. (Reuters, BBC)

Television projections following exit polls in Israel's national elections today predicted a decisive victory for Ariel Sharon's right-wing Likud party. Likud's victory reflects Israelis' concerns about national security, which the results indicate outweigh concerns about Israel's faltering economy. (Ha'aretz)

Pakistan said it had shot down an unmanned Indian spy plane flying over a Pakistani-controlled area of Kashmir. India uses the spy planes to monitor the activities of militants who India says make incursions into the region of Kashmir controlled by India. India denied that a plane had been shot down. (BBC)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il didn't meet with a South Korean envoy in Pyongyang. North Korea has alternated between promises to work with South Korea to resolve the crisis surrounding its nuclear program and complete rejections of any option other than direct talks with the U.S. (Reuters)

U.S. and Afghan forces killed 18 Afghan rebels in the mountains near the Pakistani border after encountering a force of as many as 80. United Nations officials believe increasing numbers of rebels have been traveling to Afghanistan from Pakistan and that new attacks on Afghan forces are likely. (NYT)

The Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. Forest Service had proposed to allow extensive logging in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California. The Forest Service proposal argues that the more trees it allows to be cut down the better a job it does managing fire risk. Logging is otherwise forbidden in U.S. national monuments. (LAT)

U.S. officials told the Washington Post they would declassify intelligence that proves that Iraq has been concealing banned weapons and equipment from U.N. weapons inspectors. The officials have said they are reluctant to make the intelligence public because doing so could jeapordize intelligence sources. (WaPost)

A malevolent computer program that overloaded hundreds of thousands of computers on the Internet last weekend by exploiting a known security hole in Microsoft software also affected computers run by Microsoft Corp. itself, the New York Times reported. Microsoft has defended its software by saying that users who properly maintained their software would not have been susceptible to the attack. (NYT)

The chief United Nations weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said that Iraq had failed to fully cooperate with U.N. mandated inspections of its weapons programs. In a separate report, the head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency said that he had found no evidence that Iraq was attempting to develop nuclear weapons, and asked for more time to complete his inspections. (NYT, WaPost) In response, world leaders reiterated the same positions they had taken last week. (BBC)

Stock markets dropped world wide. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed down 1.4 percent. European markets fell to near six-year lows, and Britain's FTSE 100 ended at its lowest point since 1995. In the U.S., the Dow dropped 1.74 percent, to 7,989.56; the Nasdaq lost 1.26 percent and closed at 1,325.27, and the S&P 500 closed at 847.48, down 1.62 percent. The price of gold hit its highest point in six years. (Reuters, FT, Reuters)

Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) accused President Bush of saying things that weren't true and said that Bush's economic policies were no good. (UPI) Daschle also demanded that Bush present his evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. (CBS News)

At the request of both North and South Korea, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency postponed indefinitely a meeting to discuss North Korea's nuclear program. Korean diplomats are meeting in North Korea this week. (Canada.com/AP)

The Iranian government said it had lifted the house arrest of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a popular cleric who has been critical of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Montazeri, 81, is reported to be in failing health, and other Iranian leaders had appealed that he be freed. (Guardian/AP)

China executed a Tibetan activist after a closed trial. Lobsang Dhondup, 28, was convicted of involvement in bombings that took place in southwest China between 1998 and 2002. China said the trial was closed to protect state secrets. (BBC)

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Mattel Inc.'s appeal of a U.S. Circuit Court finding that the 1997 pop song "Barbie Girl" did not violate Mattel's Barbie trademark. Mattel brings in some $1.5 billion each year from Barbie products. (Newsday/AP)

The pilot of a U.S. spy plane that crashed near Seoul yesterday apologized for the incident. The crash badly damaged a car repair shop and caused minor injuries to three people on the ground. South Koreans had accused the U.S. military of not responding appropriately last year when two Korean schoolgirls were killed in an accident. (Reuters)

In a brief television address, Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo asked his supporters to end their violent demonstrations against the peace deal brokered in France last week. Gbagbo's backers object to the power the agreement concedes to three rebel groups and have been protesting since it was announced on Saturday. (BBC) The peace deal ended four months of civil war. (WaPost, BBC)

The New York Times reported that the U.S. is developing a computerized monitoring system to analyze health data in eight major U.S. cities for patterns that may indicate disease outbreaks and possible bioterror attacks. Early detection of an outbreak could save great numbers of lives, depending on the nature of the outbreak. The health monitoring system will be run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will be designed not to track individual patients, sources said. (NYT)

The Los Angeles Times reported that analysts believe the $2 billion to $3 billion the Bush administration may allocate to domestic security is too little to adequately protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks. (LAT)

The Washington Post reported that an economic crisis may have prompted North Korea to threaten to reactivate its nuclear weapons program in hopes of winning concessions from the international community. North Korea is suffering from high inflation and shortages of food and goods, six months after attempting to reform its economy. (WaPost)

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday told world leaders that the U.S. was prepared to act against Iraq with or without international support. The U.S. has said it is concerned that U.N. weapons inspections will not be sufficient to disarm Saddam Hussein. (NYT, WaPost)