1. What happened yesterday in Hawaii? EARTHQUAKE � 6.6 ON REICHTER SCALE
2. What country�s leader is facing charges of corruption and rape? Israeli President Moshe Katsav
3. What happened in a town near DesMoine, Iowa over the weekend?
Shawn Bentler was charged Sunday in the deaths of his father, Michael Bentler, 53; his mother, Sandra Bentler, 47; and sisters Sheena Bentler, 17; Shelby Bentler, 15; and Shayne Bentler, 14. In Bonaparte, a town of about 500 residents, in southeast Iowa, near the Missouri state line.
4. What occurred on the Florida Turnpike in Port St. Lucie over the weekend?
The family, including two boys ages 3 and 4, was found Friday, fatally shot along Florida's Turnpike in Port St. Lucie, about 100 miles north of Miami. The mother, identified as Yessica Guerrero Escobedo, 25, was found clutching her two sons in an apparent effort to protect them. The body of the father, Jose Luis Escobedo, who was to turn 29 on Saturday, was found nearby. The victims appeared to be lying down or kneeling when they were shot A motive for the shootings was not yet known. Authorities said the victims and the shooter may have known each other, and investigators were not approaching the crime as a carjacking.
5. Where were 85 people found dead over the weekend?
Iraqi police found 18 of the bodies on Saturday and another 33 on Sunday in and around Bagdad.
In addition, 26 bodies were found in Balad on Saturday and six bodies were found in Baquba and Mosul, officials said. Not included in that toll were at least another eight people who were killed and 40 wounded in six car-bomb blasts on Sunday -- four of them within a 30-minute period -- in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police reported.
BONUS:
1. Describe UN Security Council Resolution 1718.
the Security Council passed it on Saturday by a 15-0 vote, and it forbids trade between U.N. member states and North Korea in high-end military equipment and material that may be used for nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.The resolution requires that Pyongyang not conduct further nuclear tests or launch ballistic missiles and demands that the country abandon all programs to develop weapons of mass destruction It also bans trade in luxury goods, and requires member states to freeze the assets of North Korean entities and individuals. Asked about the impact of banning the import of luxury goods to North Korea, Rice said the action has probably at least caught the attention of "a regime that very much likes luxury for itself while it starves its own people."