The world - Feb. 3, 2011

THURSDAY

Spurred on by an internet campaign against President Hosni Mubaraks’s three-decade rule, thousands of Egyptians take to the streets in mass protests.

The Mexican military seized a medeival-style catapult smugglers were using to hurl marijuana over the U.S. border in a bust near the small town of Naco.

FRIDAY

Egyptian armed forces were dispatched to Cairo’s central Tahrir Square as protestors returned in the early hours.

Miami teenager Nicholas Harrington told the Miami Herald it was he who mysteriously placed a piano on a tiny sand bar in the middle of Biscane Bay. Harrington said it...