BULLETIN: In Case You Missed It (Week 12)

Students,

These are a few possible items for CEQ#12:

(CNN) -- Late-night television shows readied themselves Monday for reruns as movie and television writers manned picket lines on both sides of the country on the first day of the Writers Guild of America's strike against studios and production companies.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A friend and adviser to Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson resigned from the campaign Monday after weekend news reports disclosed his more than 20-year-old drug convictions.

LONDON (CNN) -- The head of Britain's intelligence services warned Monday there are at least 2,000 people living in Britain who pose a threat to the country's security because of their support for al Qaida-inspired terrorism.

JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa (CNN) -- A matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa was formally charged Monday with 13 counts of abusing and assaulting students at the school.

Dressed in a black and white football shirt, the woman, Tiny Virginia Mokobo, 27, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which include assault, indecent assault, and crimen injuria, which involves verbal abuse which violates the victim's dignity.

BANGALORE, India (CNN) -- An Indian toddler born with four arms and four legs was recovering in the intensive care unit early Wednesday after surgeons in India successfully completed a mammoth 40-hour operation to remove her "parasitic twin," head surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil said.

CNN) -- Republican Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher lost his bid for a second term Tuesday, while his GOP counterpart in Mississippi, Gov. Haley Barbour, was expected to breeze to victory in the marquee races of the 2007 off-year elections.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Washington Tuesday ahead of a planned address to Congress, the first such address by a French leader in 11 years.

ROME (CNN) -- Police made a string of arrests across Europe Tuesday, detaining 20 people suspected of involvement in the recruitment of suicide bombers, Italian police said.

LONDON (CNN) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth opened parliament Tuesday and delivered her annual speech in a ceremony steeped in history, tradition, and regalia. The occasion is considered the most important constitutional event of the year and sets out the government's legislative program for the next 12 months.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- U.S. safety officials on Wednesday voluntarily recalled about 4.2 million Chinese-made Aqua Dots toys contaminated with a powerful "date rape" drug that has caused some children who swallowed the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 25 percent of the nation's homeless population are veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States, Colombia and Mexico are slowing the flow of cocaine and methamphetamine into America, according to new figures from the Drug Enforcement Administration released Thursday.

TUUSULA, Finland (CNN) -- An 18-year-old student opened fire Wednesday in his school in this town in southern Finland, killing eight people and wounding at least 12, according to Finnish news agency STT.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Michael Mukasey, President Bush's pick to be the nation's next attorney general, was confirmed by the Senate Thursday night, despite complaints from some Democrats about his refusal to brand as torture a controversial interrogation technique known as "waterboarding."

The final vote on Mukasey's confirmation was 53-40.

(CNN) -- A federal grand jury has returned a sealed indictment against former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, sources familiar with the investigation said Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Clean-up crews have recovered about 8,000 gallons of oil from a 58,000-gallon spill caused when a container ship struck a protective shield surrounding a support tower of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy fog Wednesday morning, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (CNN) -- Arthur Bremer, who attempted to assassinate Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972, was released from prison Friday, according to state corrections spokesman Mark Vernarelli.