The world - Jan. 28, 2010

THURSDAY

A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb on a flight from New York’s La Guardia airport to Louisville.

Burglars stole several valuable items, including a silver ring belonging to Alexander the Great, from the Ashdod Museum in Israel, which was displaying hundreds of artifacts recovered from the black-market.

South Korea’s government will turn out the lights early in some offices in order to encourage employees to go home and make babies. There are fears that South Korea’s population will begin to...