IT security company Symantec Corp signs a definitive agreement to merge with Veritas Software Corp, valued at $13.5 billion, in an all-stock transaction.
The South Korean high-speed rail system, Korea Train Express, opens between Seoul and Busan.
Albanian terrorists take a bus and its passengers hostage in Athens, Greece and demand 1 million euros in ransom money.
The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation, by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists.
