A report from a conference at London\'s Institute of Contemporary Arts entitled \'Whatever Happened to HAL?\' The speakers argued that the robots would evolve naturally and would therefore be less of a threat to humanity.

Sketches and calculations to make a helium-powered balloon bomb filled with anthrax have been found from the Kabul office of an NGO headed by a Pakistani nuclear scientist. Such a balloon bomb was capable of showering deadly anthrax over areas as vast as New York or Washington.

Pakistan has refused to allow India to transport a shipment of wheat for Afghanistan through Pakistan because it fears that the wheat may be "diseased".