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An American of Pakistani origin, Faisal Shahzad has been charged with involvement in the failed car bomb attack in Times Square in New York City on Saturday. Mr. Shahzad was charged on five counts, one of which was attempting to explode a weapon of massive destruction. Barbara Plett reports from outside the Manhattan Courthouse.

Court documents said Mr. Shahzad had admitted trying to detonate the car bomb in Times Square. They said he reviewed that the plot began in December last year and that he had recently received bomb-making training in the tribal areas of Pakistan. However the documents did not say who gave him this training. They also made no mention of the Pakistani Taliban which claimed to be behind the aborted attack. Mr. Shahzad apparently left a trail of evidence in what was described as an amateur operation. He was arrested about 48 hours later trying to fly out of New York to Dubai.

Share prices in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in the face of persistent worries about the Greek economy. The main index in New York fell more than 2%. London and Frankfurt closed down more than 2.5%, and Paris fell more than 3.5%. Here is our business correspondent Nils Blythe.

The 110 billion euro bailout for Greece announced over the weekend hasn’t settled the nerves of European financial markets. The concern is that other countries will also find themselves unable to borrow in the normal way and will then have to look for support from fellow eurozone countries. Portugal and Spain seem to be particularly vulnerable. And the Spanish Prime Minister Rodríguez Zapatero was forced to dismiss rumors that his country’s preparing a request for support. Even the New York share market, which often shrugs off events outside the US, has picked up the growing anxieties in Europe.

The giant oil company BP says it's preparing a new attempt to stem the flow of oil spilling from a sunken drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

It plans to use remote-controlled submarines to position a metal dome over the leak far beneath the sea. The aim is for the dome to funnel escaping oil into a pipe that will carry it to tankers on the surface.

BP says it hopes to get the dome in place in the next few days.

The Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga has criticized an American anti-abortion group for funding a campaign against Kenya’s draft constitution. The American Center for Law and Justice and its partner association in Kenya opposed an article in the draft document which they say would allow abortion on demand. The Kenyan authorities denied this, saying doctors would only allow abortions in medical emergencies. Mr. Odinga told the BBC the Americans were interfering.

That it is a very disturbing development indeed that American organizations start involved in negative campaign against the draft constitution,a real interference in the internal affairs of Kenya.Kenyans are due to vote on draft constitution by July.

A special commission in Honduras has begun investigating last year's military-backed overthrow of the then President Manuel Zelaya. The body known as a truth commission was set up by the new President Porfirio Lobo shortly after his election in November in an attempt to restore some of the country’s international standing.

The World Health Organization has launched a website intended to help reduce the number of people killed or disabled by snake bites around the world. It estimates that some one hundred thousand people die every year out of the two and a half million who are bitten by snakes. Daniel Aberheart reports.

Do you know the difference between a puff adder and a gaboon viper? Where you'd want to if you'd got bitten by either one. They’re both deadly and look broadly similar. But some types of antivenoms only work for the puff adder. It's then that you’d want to access a site like this. This database provides a photographic guide to all poisonous snakes in the world and advice on appropriate anti-venoms. The WHO hopes it can be used by health workers and by governments to plan what antivenoms they should stockpile.

Parliament in France has voted to give the tattooed and mummified heads of some 15 Maori warriors back to New Zealand. The elaborately decorated heads, some with hair and teeth, were plundered by explorers long ago. This report from Hugh Schofield in Paris.

Two centuries ago it was a mark of success for Bukharin Colonists in New Zealand to possess the head of a dead Maori warrior. Overall it's reckoned that some five hundred Maori heads were taken abroad, many ending up in museums. Now attitudes have changed, more than three hundred have been taken back for reburial. France will now join that process. The will to make amends has long been there. But it’s required an active parliament because museums found that they were banned by law from giving up what was technically the inalienable property of the French state.

巴基斯坦裔美国人费萨尔·沙扎德(Faisal Shahzad)被控告涉嫌制造周六纽约时代广场爆炸未遂事件。沙扎德共被控告五宗罪行,其中一个是试图制造大规模爆炸。Barbara Plett在曼哈顿法庭外报道。

法院文件称,沙扎德已经承认试图引爆时代广场的汽车炸弹。他们表示,他检讨自己从去年12月份开始预谋这次爆炸,最近在巴基斯坦部落地区接受了制造炸弹的训练。然而,文件没有提到谁为他提供训练。而且文件也没有提到声称指使这次未遂袭击的巴基斯坦塔利班分子。很明显,沙扎德在所谓的业余行动中留下了证据。48小时后,当他试图由纽约飞往迪拜时被捕。

由于对希腊经济的持续担忧,欧洲和美国股票价格急剧下跌。纽约主要股指下跌超过2%,伦敦和法兰克福股市收盘时下跌超过2.5%,巴黎的下跌幅度超过3.5%。以下是我们的商业记者Nils Blythe的报道。

周末期间宣布的对希腊提供的1100亿欧元的救助并没有稳定欧洲金融市场的情绪。主要的担忧是,其他国家也会逐渐发现自己难以从正规渠道借贷,也要从其他欧元区成员国贷款,最易受伤害的似乎是葡萄牙和西班牙。有谣言称西班牙准备求助,西班牙首相萨帕特罗(Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)被迫辟谣。甚至一项不理会美国以外形势的纽约股票市场也考虑到欧洲不断增长的焦虑。

石油巨头BP石油公司表示,他们正准备进行新的努力,阻止墨西哥湾沉没的石油钻塔继续漏油。

BP石油公司计划使用远程控制潜艇在海面以下的漏油钻塔上放置一个圆顶物,目的是通过这个圆顶物将泄漏的石油导入一个管道,随后将石油装入地面上的油轮。BP表示希望在未来的几天将这个圆顶物安装完毕。

肯尼亚总理拉伊拉·奥廷加(Raila Odinga)批评美国一个反堕胎组织为一项反对宪法草案的运动提供资金。“美国法律与正义中心”(American Center for Law and Justice)和它的肯尼亚合作机构反对法律草案中的一项条款,他们称,该条款可能按照要求实施堕胎。肯尼亚当局对此予以否认,他们说,医生们只有在医疗紧急情况下才会为病人进行堕胎。奥廷加告诉BBC,美国人在干涉肯尼亚国内事务。

“美国组织开始卷入反对宪法草案的消极性运动,这是非常干扰性的行为,是对肯尼亚国内事务真正的干预。”

肯尼亚人定于7月份对宪法草案进行投票。

洪都拉斯一个特别委员会开始就去年军方支持的推翻总统塞拉亚事件展开调查。该“真相委员会”由新任总统波菲里奥·洛沃(Porfirio Lobo)在去年11月份当选总统后不久成立,目的是重塑该国的国际地位。

世界卫生组织成立了一个网站,目的是减少全世界因被蛇咬耳死亡或残疾的人数。世卫组织估计,全世界每年有250万人被蛇咬,其中大约10万人死亡。Daniel Aberheart报道。

你知道鼓腹毒蛇和加彭蝰蛇之间的区别吗?如果你被其中任何一个咬伤,你应该去哪里?他们都是非常致命的,而且看上去非常类似。但是一些抗蛇毒素只对鼓腹毒蛇起作用。所以,你可能需要登录这样的网站了解。该数据库为全世界所有的毒蛇提供了图片指导,并提供了恰当的抗毒建议。世卫组织希望该网站可以供医疗工作者和政府使用,以计划应该储备哪些抗毒液素。

法国议会举行投票,向新西兰归还15名毛利勇士的经过装饰的木乃伊头颅。这些头颅装饰非常精巧,一些还有头发和牙齿,很久以前被探险者掠夺。以下是我们的巴黎记者Hugh Schofield的报道

两个世纪以前,新西兰布哈林殖民主义者拥有了一名去世的毛利勇士的头颅,这被视为成功的标志。据估算,共有500名毛利勇士的头颅被带往国外,许多都陈列在博物馆中。现在,随着态度的转变,300多个头颅已经送还新西兰进行重新安葬。法国现在也将进行该过程。法国进行改变的愿望已经由来已久。但是要求议会进行投票,因为博物馆发现法律禁止他们放弃从学术上来说法国不可剥夺的财产。

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