• An Air Ivoire flight en route from Paris to the Ivory Coast was diverted to Marseille after a bomb threat was made. No explosives were found

• The U.S. Highway Watch safety and anti-terrorism awareness program for truck drivers has enrolled a total of more than 400,000 after training 100,000 this past summer

• The U.K. and Kazakhstan have signed an accord pledging to cooperate in fighting terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking and drug smuggling

• The civil rights office of the DHS has opened an investigation into the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight. Other passengers felt the men were acting suspiciously, but they say they were only trying to pray

• The International Tank Container Organization (ITCO) has posted "Industry Guidelines for the Security of the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road" at http://www.itco.be.

• Singapore has established an information-sharing center to back up regional anti-piracy efforts