Swiss to make Polanski announcement Monday

Switzerland will make an announcement Monday about the extradition of Roman Polanski to the United States for sentencing on a charge of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, the government said.

Justice Ministry spokesman Guido Balmer declined to confirm that a decision had been made, or what it might be.

The government said only that Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will hold a news conference in the capital, Bern, at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT; 8 a.m. EDT) "on the matter of the Roman Polanski extradition decision."

Lawyers representing Polanski declined to comment before the Swiss announcement.

The Oscar-winning director of …

Popliteal artery false aneurysm secondary to tibial osteochondroma

Brief Communication Communication abre gee

Osteochondromas are benign bone tumours of growth plate origin.

Although vascular complications of these are rare, the most commonly reported is a popliteal artery pseudoaneurysm.1 Most pseudoaneurysms have been related to femoral osteochondromas, with only 3 previous reports of a popliteal pseudoaneurysm secondary to a tibial exostosis.2,3 We report a case of a popliteal pseudoaneurysm secondary to a tibial osteochondroma and discuss its etiology and management.

Case report

An otherwise healthy and physically active 30-year-old man presented with progressive discomfort and swelling of his upper medial left …

Australia vs. India scoreboard

Scoreboard at stumps Friday after the third day of the first test between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground:

Australia, 1st Innings: 343

India, 1st Innings: 196

Australia, 2nd Innings

(Overnight: 32 without loss)

Phil Jaques c & b Kumble 51

Matthew Hayden c Ganguly b H. Singh 47

Ricky Ponting c Dravid b H. Singh 3

Michael Hussey c Tendulkar b R.P. Singh 36

Michael Clarke str Dhoni b Kumble 73

Andrew Symonds lbw b Khan 44

Adam Gilchrist c R.P. Singh b H. Singh 35

Brad Hogg not out 35

Brett Lee not out 11

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Open-and-shut case vs. secrecy

Court records sometimes are sealed for legitimate reasons — to keep a witness' private medical information out of the public eye, for example.

But too often, records are hidden away for spurious reasons — to render judges' or lawyers' divorce records private, for example, while the proceedings of ordinary people remain public.

A legal effort under way to keep secret the testimony of Cook County Commissioner Jeffrey R. Tobolski in a lawsuit involving alleged hiring improprieties strikes us as being in the second category. The judge should refuse to play along.

As reported by Steve Warmbir in …

Arnold Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Frances H. Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy recognized Arnold for integrating molecular biology, genetics, and bioengineering into industry, including research in protein design and new biocatalysts.

Arnold is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, making her one of only eight living individuals - and the only woman to have been elected to all three National Academies.

Two other living chemical engineers have also been elected to the Science. Engineering and Medicine academies: Albert L. Babb of …

Rice Hints at Openness to Work With Syria

SHANNON, Ireland - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the United States' poor relationship with Syria is overstated and indicated an openness to working with Damascus to resolve the crisis in the Middle East.

En route to the region, Rice noted that the United States still has a diplomatic mission and State Department officials working in the Syrian capital. That presence, she said, is a "channel for dealing with Syria."

"The problem isn't that people haven't talked to the Syrians. It's that the Syrians haven't acted," she said. "I think this is simply just a kind of false hobby horse that somehow it's because we don't talk to the Syrians.

"It's not …

Small protest greets Obama's school speech

Controversy has followed President Barack Obama to the Virginia school where he's getting ready to address the nation's students returning to school for the fall.

A small group of protesters gathered outside Wakefield High School in the Washington suburb of Arlington as the president's motorcade was arriving …