October 8, 2002

Attention drugs 'do not shrink brain' BBC - Children with serious attention problems have smaller brains - but medication is not to blame, research has found. 7:34:09 PM

Court allows release of Bon Jovi CD ZDnet  Bon Jovi's latest album, "Bounce," is already showing some resiliency. A New York district court judge late Friday denied a motion to restrict Universal Music Group from distributing and promoting the record, due in stores Tuesday. It will be one of the first major albums released with identification numbers that give in-store buyers bonuses via the Web. 7:30:47 PM

One of Six US Terror Suspects to be Released on Bail Voice of America -A judge has ruled that one of six US men facing criminal charges of supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network will be freed on a $600000 bail. 5:49:18 PM

John Lennon's Killer Seeks Parole Again KSBW-TV, CA .The man convicted of shooting to death former Beatle John Lennon is asking to be paroled from prison for the second time. 1:39:24 PM

SmartMoney - An e-mail-borne computer virus that lets hackers control infected machines remotely continues to spread and constitutes the most severe attack this year, experts say. The worm, known as W32.Bugbear, or I-Worm.Tanatos, infects computers that use Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows operating systems. It was first spotted a week ago and has spread to dozens of countries. Microsoft issued a patch last year, Security Bulletin MS01-027. But many users don't keep their machines current with patches.   10:51:52 AM

Sky News Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station New York Times -CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., A four-month hiatus in space shuttle flights ended today when the shuttle Atlantis blasted off into a blue Florida sky on a mission to expand the International Space Station. 9:56:19 AM

Key Breast Cancer Gene ID'd Newsday -Discovery of a gene that could be important in many breast cancer cases was announced yesterday by a research team at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Washington. 9:51:40 AM

Hubble Spots An Icy World Far Beyond Pluto Science Daily -NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object in the solar system ever seen since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. 9:49:42 AM

CNN School shooting linked to sniper CNN -Virginia Lovett comforts her daughter Kamled after a student at the girl's school was shot Monday. Police have linked the shooting of a 13-year-old boy outside a middle school in Prince George's County to sniper attacks in the Washington area. 9:31:45 AM

ITV US marine killed in Kuwait shootout BBC - American marines say they have come under attack during military exercises on Kuwait's Failaka island. 9:28:33 AM

BBC Bush speech ' full of lies ' - Iraq BBC -A senior Iraqi official says President George W Bush's ultimatum for Baghdad to disarm or be disarmed by force was "full of lies". 9:24:36 AM

BBC US, France Investigate Blast on Tanker Near Yemen Voice of America - The United States and France have sent teams to Yemen to determine whether Sunday's explosion on a French oil tanker was an accident or terrorism. The crippled tanker Limburg is adrift in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen. UPDATE: Missing Crew Member On Yemen Tanker Found  7:50:16 AM

Israel: Slain Palestinians 'mostly armed' United Press International - KISSUFIM CROSSING, Israel, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The commander of the Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, Brig. Gen. Israel Ziv, said Monday's pre-dawn raid in Khan Yunes was designed to shatter Hamas militants' confidence and most of the casualties were armed militants. 7:44:27 AM