Jerusalem

Suicide bomber strikes bus

A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Jerusalem city bus during morning rush hour, killing himself and at least 10 passengers and wounding dozens, police sources said. Many school children were on the bus, officials said.

The bomber set off the explosives in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Menachem neighborhood about 7:15 a.m. (11:15 p.m. CST).

The explosion was the first bombing since Nov. 4, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a shopping mall in central Israel. The Israeli army has reoccupied most Palestinian towns and cities in the West Bank to try and halt the bombings.

New York City

Office tower unveiled for trade center site

A 750-foot, glass-and-steel office tower ” with better fireproofing and wider stairs for quick evacuation ” will be built on the site of one of the smaller buildings to collapse at the World Trade Center complex. The plans, unveiled Wednesday, represent the first major rebuilding project at the World Trade Center to be announced.

The 52-story building at 7 World Trade Center ” across the street from the main trade center site ” will be sleeker and five stories taller than its predecessor.

Architects are still laboring to create designs for the larger trade center site.

New Mexico

Nuclear lab property missing

A memo released by whistleblowers at Los Alamos National Laboratory says nearly $1.3 million worth of computers, phones and other property was unaccounted for in the budget year 2001.

Pete Stockton, senior investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group that received the memo, said missing computers pose “one hell of a potential security problem.”

The whistleblowers also claim that lab leaders have been covering up criminal activity including credit card, purchasing and voucher fraud.