Law & Society

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative was arrested and is currently facing extradition to Italy following her role in the February 2003 kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar in Milan. Sabrina De Sousa was detained at the Lisbon airport on a European arrest warrant. She insisted that she was not involved in the kidnapping and only served as interpreter to the CIA during early-stage meetings in 2002.

Bangladesh police investigators found out that the SWIFT software's security system has no firewall and it relied on $10 switches in its local networks, resulting to the successful hacking heist of cyber criminals.

The Champs-Elysees boulevard will be pedestrian-only on the first Sunday of every month. The new program is expected to help cut air pollution in Paris, among other similar programs initiated by the city mayor.