ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida's busiest airport will begin using high-tech iris-scanning technology to filter out possible terrorists and add an additional layer of security, according to Local 6 News.
Workers and other people at Orlando International Airport will have both irises scanned at special computers to determine their identity.                                                                                                                   
                                                                  
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Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers are gearing up for a showdown this summer, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to implement his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and dismantle 21 settlements there. Four more communities will be removed in northern Samaria. More than 9,000 Jews will be expelled from their homes in the Land of Israel.
The government is already drawing up plans to block attempts by the settlers to thwart the pullout, which is scheduled to begin in late July. Some 27,000 police and soldiers will be deployed for the operation, which will include dragging the settlers away by force and sealing off the Gaza’s borders to prevent tens of thousands of protesters from arriving to prevent the evacuation.

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By Anna Fifield in Seoul
Published: May 11 2005 13:04 | Last updated: May 12 2005 03:36
North Korea on Wednesday said it had removed thousands of spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon nuclear plant, a key step in a weapons programme causing increasing anxiety in Washington.
Amid fears that Kim Jong-il's regime might try to assert itself by testing a nuclear weapon, North Korea's central news agency quoted the North Korean foreign ministry as saying Pyongyang had “recently completed the process to withdraw 8,000 spent fuel rods from the 5MW experimental nuclear power plant

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