In Brief

HANGING – Seven people were sentenced to death by hanging yesterday for triple hotel bombings that killed 60 people in Jordan’s capital last November.

The only one in custody was a 35-year-old Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, who confessed on Jordanian television shortly after the blasts that she intended to carry out a suicide attack on one of the Western hotels. * SAFE RETURN – Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts glided to a safe landing in the dark this morning, ending a construction mission to the space station briefly upstaged by mysterious floating objects outside the shuttle.”Nice to be back.It was a great team effort,” said commander Brent Jett after touchdown at Kennedy Space Centre.* BANNED – Party meetings and other political activities have been banned in Thailand, two days after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted by a bloodless military coup.* RELIGION – A tourism commission in Zanzibar, Tanzania, has instructed all hotels and restaurants that primarily serve local people to strictly observe rules associated with the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan by not serving food or drink during daylight hours, said an official said yesterday.* BEHEADING – A man who admitted in court in Illinios to tearing off the head of a kitten after a fight with his girlfriend has been sentenced to two years in prison.Nampa-AFP-AP-Reuters-Sapa* SAFE RETURN – Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts glided to a safe landing in the dark this morning, ending a construction mission to the space station briefly upstaged by mysterious floating objects outside the shuttle.”Nice to be back.It was a great team effort,” said commander Brent Jett after touchdown at Kennedy Space Centre.* BANNED – Party meetings and other political activities have been banned in Thailand, two days after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted by a bloodless military coup.* RELIGION – A tourism commission in Zanzibar, Tanzania, has instructed all hotels and restaurants that primarily serve local people to strictly observe rules associated with the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan by not serving food or drink during daylight hours, said an official said yesterday.* BEHEADING – A man who admitted in court in Illinios to tearing off the head of a kitten after a fight with his girlfriend has been sentenced to two years in prison.Nampa-AFP-AP-Reuters-Sapa