Whom has US president Barack Obama nominated to replace justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court?

Khattiya Sawasdipol, a suspended army specialist in charge of security at an encampment occupied by thousands of ‘Red Shirt’ demonstrators, was admitted to an intensive care ward after being shot. He died in hospital. Better known as ‘Seh Daeng’ (Commander Red) he enjoyed a cult following among some Red Shirts and soldiers but was dubbed a ‘terrorist’ by Thailand's government, which accused him of involvement in dozens of grenade attacks that injured more than 100 people.

Connie Hedegaard is a Danish politician and public intellectual who has been European commissioner for climate action in the new European Commission since February 10, 2010. Her statement came after US Democratic senator John Kerry and independent senator Joseph Lieberman presented a long-awaited climate bill on May12, 2010, which aims to cut planet-warming emissions by 17% in the next decade.

David Cameron assumed the top post after Queen Elizabeth II invited him to form the new government following the resignation of incumbent Gordon Brown. The 43-year-old became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years, since Lord Liverpool, who assumed office at 42.

The 45-year-old Gupta's name was agreed upon after a series of meetings among senior party leaders, including LK Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Ram Lal, and Thavarchand Gehlot. A three-time councillor from Rohini, Gupta had unsuccessfully contested against Kapil Sibal, now Union HRD minister, in the Chandni Chowk constituency in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.

If confirmed, Kagan, a 50-year-old former Harvard Law School dean who is currently the solicitor general of the United States, would become the third woman on the nine-member court, joining Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the fourth woman ever to serve on the bench. All appointments to the US Supreme Court have to be confirmed by the senate and are for life, unless a justice, like Stevens, 90, decides to call it a day.

Justice Misra, 56, is at present the chief justice of the Patna high court and has been directed to assume his new responsibility on or before May 28. Born on October 3, 1953, justice Misra enrolled as an advocate in February 1977 and practised in constitutional, civil, criminal, revenue, service, and sales tax matters in the Orissa high court and the service tribunal.

A team from Greenpeace conducted a survey of the Mayapuri market, where the dismantling of a gamma irradiator brought from Delhi University had led to the radiation exposure. The investigation by Greenpeace revealed an immediate radiation risk to people at the scrapyard.

The West Bengal police chief said Bikash was also the person behind the attack on the Sankrail police station in October last year in which two policemen were killed and the officer-in-charge of the outpost abducted.

Sergey Storchak and 10 other cyber criminals from various nationalities have been accused of carrying out what the US justice department calls the ‘single largest and most complex identity theft case ever’. Information on Storchak’s movements was passed on to the CBI by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Addressing the Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap Mahapanchayat in Kaithal, Jindal, an industrialist and member of Parliament, said he would vigorously take up the issues raised by the caste panchayats and their sentiments with the Congress high command and also with the BS Hooda government in Haryana.