- ...that after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party, Austrian politician Jörg Haider (pictured) accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography?
- ...that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war?
- ...that Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?