From the June 29 globeandmail.com story:

A police attempt to seize true-crime author Derek Finkle's files foundered yesterday when an Ontario judge blasted investigators for casting too wide a net.

"Fishing season is over; the subpoenas are quashed," said Mr. Justice David Watt of the Superior Court of Ontario.

Judge Watt said police and prosecutors in the Robert Baltovich murder case - which will be retried commencing in September - failed to furnish nearly enough specific information to support their request for two separate subpoenas.

He said authorities were also wrong to believe they could sit back and obtain "a breathtaking sweep" of material from Mr. Finkle, and then sift through it for anything that struck them as useful.

It is not enough to believe that there is "a mere possibility" that a seizure might produce relevant evidence, Judge Watt said. Instead, he said, police must show that they are "likely" to turn up material evidence.

The ruling ended a tumultuous year for Mr. Finkle, whose book, No Claim to Mercy, raised questions about Mr. Baltovich's conviction for the 1990 murder of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain.

From the BBC:

A car on fire has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, police have confirmed.

Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath.

They have also described seeing two Asian men, one of whom was on fire, who had been in the car.

Strathclyde Police said two people had been arrested and detained in connection with the incident.

The airport has been evacuated and all flights suspended following the incident at 1515 BST.

A Whitehall spokesman said the incident was not being treated as a national security threat however the prime minister is being kept informed of developments and is expected to chair a meeting of COBRA - the emergency committee later.

They might be saying it's not a national security threat, but it follows after Friday's car bomb threats in London. :(

Update

Actually, the government reconsidered. From the BBC:

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the national terrorism threat level had been raised to its highest level of "critical", meaning an attack was expected "imminently".

Ryerson University j-prof John Miller has some critical words for how the news media covered the 1995 Ipperwash dispute -- and how they can do better in the future.

That is the grim headline on the Guardian's website, regarding the news that two car bombs were found in West London early Friday. They are described as Iraqi-style car bombs.

From the NYT:

The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country’s lawless tribal areas and that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country.

The warning came in a document from the Interior Ministry, which said Pakistan’s security forces in North-West Frontier Province abutting the tribal areas were outgunned and outnumbered and had forfeited authority to the Taliban and their allies.

“The ongoing spell of active Taliban resistance has brought about serious repercussions for Pakistan,” says the 15-page document, which was shown to The New York Times. “There is a general policy of appeasement towards the Taliban, which has further emboldened them.”

The document was discussed by this country’s National Security Council on June 4 while General Musharraf was present, the document notes. It appears to be the first such document to emerge from the Pakistani government formally recognizing the seriousness of the spreading threat here from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, according to a Western diplomat.

From the Manohla Dargis review in the NYT:

The use of Parkour during several fight scenes is particularly tasty, proving that when cinematic push comes to shove, the French, who originated this ultra-cool rough-and-tumble, which finds performers bouncing like balls from wall to wall, rooftop to rooftop and many hair-raising points in between, are definitely in the coalition of the willing.

More evidence -- at least to my mind -- that the parkour showcase film Banlieue 13 is probably the most influential action movie of the decade.

With LFDH and Casino Royale borrowing from it, I wonder if the Bourne Ultimatum will be next.

If you go to see Live Free or Die Hard, keep an eye out for Cyril Raffaelli (Rand), one of the bad guys. He's the one of the stars of Banlieue 13 and did a memorable small turn in Kiss of the Dragon during a fight with Jet Li. You can see some videos of him in action here.