Iran nuclear experts race to stop spread of Stuxnet computer worm | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Experts at Iran's nuclear agency are trying to disable a complex computer virus that has attacked the country's industrial sites and appears to be aimed at shutting down its Bushehr nuclear plant, which was due to go online next month."

Amid US scramble to save talks, Abbas secretly engages Hamas terror chiefs in Damascus
This week, Abbas sent a high-ranking delegation of his own Fatah party to Damascus for secret talks with top Hamas leaders, thereby swinging the critical focus of the Israel-Palestinian peace talks to a new internal Palestinian track led by the radical Hamas and Syria, the foremost opponents of the US-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Abbas was apparently supported in this shift by Egypt.

With freeze set to end, Abbas tells UN: Israel must choose settlements or peace:
"The freeze on construction in West Bank settlements is due to end in less than 24 hours, potentially creating a crisis that could halt direct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and there is still no solution in sight."

US fervently trying to save peace talks: "As end of moratorium on West Bank settlement construction looms, Mitchell meets Abbas in New York as Netanyahu advises Barak, Molcho who remain in US in attempt to reach compromise."

Ahmadinejad tells U.N. most blame U.S. government for 9/11 | Reuters: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. delegation to leave the hall in protest."