THE TENSION: The Decline and Fall of Western Civ. for 30 Aug.

AP reports that RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts. Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: "The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."

Here's a story eerily familiar to the one earlier this year where UNC student Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar confessed to intentionally hitting people after he drove an SUV through a crowd of students. This time, the driver identified as Omeed A. Popal, 29, in a bloody hit-and-run spree that killed one man and injured more than a dozen people was mentally unstable and feeling stress from a recent arranged marriage, according to relatives, according to AP. Please note the driver's name. In this video, one witness says Omeed referred to himself as a "terrorist."

An Air Canada Jazz pilot who left the cockpit of his passenger jet to use a back washroom moments before landing found himself locked out upon his return, an airline official told AFP.

Reuters reports that the New York Times has decided to block British online readers from seeing a story about London terrorism suspects. The move raises new questions on restricting the flow of information in the Internet age, legal and media experts say.