• Traditional owners from Northern Territory, Australia gathered outside Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney to rally against plans to place a nuclear waste facility on their land
• All new and renewed US passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other information currently printed in passports. Technology experts say that the data on the chips, which will be read at a short distance by electronic devices in a passport-control booth, could be electronically intercepted and potentially misused
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