It's been eight years when the Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat died in a hospital in France. An investigation is launched this year to find actual cause of his death.

As reported by a Swiss newspaper, 60 samples have been collected from his grave with a Palestinian pathologist only being allowed to touch his remains. It was opened on Tuesday in the West Bank City of Ramallah.

From December 3 to December 14, the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) agency will be meeting in Dubai UAE, to make some pertinent revisions to the 1988-drafted International Telecommunications Regulations treaty --- a treaty which was framed before the commercial Internet came into being; and when telecommunications chiefly pertained to voice telephone calls through national telephone monopolies.

The recent arrest of two suspected deep-cover spies in Germany revealed that Russia is still using the former Soviet KGB's network of spies as a kind of "mailboxes" for receiving sensitive information in special cases.

Last Tuesday, Germany arrested two people on espionage charges. According to Der Spiegel, the two spies are 51-year-olds Andreas and Heirdrun, who had started spying in Germany for the former Soviet KGB.