President Gordon B. Hinckley will appear on CNN's "Larry King Live," on Tuesday, September 8th at 7:00 p.m. It marks the first time a president of the Church has been interviewed by King. The show airs live, and people from around the world can call in and ask questions. Deirdre Kline, publicist for King, said President Hinckley will discuss his life, the future of the church and his views on the nation's morality.

Switzerland's ambassador to Canada, Daniel Dayer, was struck and killed by a train on a railway station platform on Saturday. He died on the spot after he stumbled into the path of a train that was pulling into the station. The Swiss news agency said Dayer had attended an ambassadors conference in August and stayed on to spend the holiday in Switzerland. He had intended to return with his family to Canada on Saturday.

A Swiss Air flight from the U.S. headed to Switzerland recently crashed in Canada. Many nationalities were represented on the airplane, and there was a large number of individuals connected to the United Nations aboard that flight. All the passengers on that flight are presumed dead.

The U.S. has confirmed that Iran has made a "substantial" military buildup near its Afghanistan border. Since the capture of 11 Iranian diplomats, 35 Iranian truck drivers, and an Iranian journalist, there have been calls in the Iranian media for a strike against the Taliban. The military buildup includes an estimated 35,000 Iranian troops, tanks, artillery, and two SA-6 anti-aircraft batteries. The Taliban in Pakistan have taken the unusual step of arming civilians in the province that borders Iraq. U.S. intelligence reports supposedly suggest that some of the diplomats could have been killed. The Taliban only admit to holding the truck drivers, claiming no knowledge of the fate of the journalist and diplomats. State-run Tehran radio said Iran had the right under international law to take all necessary military action.

It appears that Iran wants to teach the Taliban a lesson. Others think that some officials want to re-establish influence in Afghanistan through military means. The Sunni Muslim Taliban seized Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, in 1996 and now controls about 2/3 of the country, even though it is not recognized by the U.N., Shiite Muslim Iran, or the U.S. In attempting to seize control, the Taliban have massacred thousands of civilians according to Amnesty International.

Investigators in the August 7 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania not only know what the bomb was made of, but also who carried it to the embassy. Police have two suspects and three informants in custody. The Tanzanian investigator would not identify the one non-Tanzanian suspect or his nationality, but did not deny media reports that the suspect was Sudanese. All three informants participated in the preparations for the bombing, most unwittingly, and are now cooperating with the investigation. Media reports in Tanzania say the ingredients for the bombs originated in the Middle East and were transferred by sea through the Comoros Islands to Tanzania. Similar reports from Nairobi say components were also transported from Tanzania to Nairobi by road.

In north-central Mexico school children were receiving cocaine instead of salt with their potato chips. Homemade potato chips sold outside a downtown school in San Luis Potosi came with small packets of white powder wrapped in plastic. After a few complaints, the Health Ministry officials analysed the substance and found it to be cocaine. So far no arrests have been made, but education officials have started searching the students backpacks as they enter school grounds.

The judge had to halt the trial after the jury collapsed into giggles after hearing that the defendant had broken into a police station and pretended to be an inspector, at the Hailsham police station, East Sussex, England. Simon Davey, 29, went to the police station in the middle of the night to report himself for not being able to pay a taxi fare. No one was at the police station, so he climbed in through a bathroom window, put on an inspector's hat and a sergeant's jacket, and manned the front desk. He tried to leave a message on the answering machine, but broke it. A special constable arrived in the early hours, banging on the doors to get in. Mr. Davey reportedly opened a back door, rocked on his heels and said, "Evenin' all." So at his trial, Davey was being tried on charges of burglary of a piece of telephone wire, the top of the broken answering machine, and some blank statement forms. The proceedings had to be halted as the jury and court staff - including police who gave evidence - could not stop laughing as a tape of the interview was being played. Mr. Davey said he had drank 8-10 pints at the Eastbourne Darts Open before a friend called him a cab. Halfway home he realized he could not pay the fare, and that's when he had the idea to go to the police station. The judge stifled a chuckle as jurors wiped tears from their eyes. He ordered the interview stopped, and after consulting lawyers, directed the jury to deliver a not guilty verdict. Mr. Davey was bound over for two years.

The north and south poles of the Moon may contain up to six billion metric tons of water ice, which is more than ten times the amount that scientists had previously estimated. Growing evidence suggests that water ice deposits of relatively high concentration are trapped beneath the soil in the permanently shadowed craters of both lunar polar regions. NASA's Lunar Prospector mission has been filling us in on strong, localized magnetic fields, new mass concentrations on the surface, and global distribution of major rock types, key resources, and trace elements.

While its magnetic field is relatively weak and not global in nature like most planets, the Moon does contain magnetized rocks on its upper surface. The resultant strong, local magnetic fields create the two smallest known magnetospheres in the Solar System. According to a team member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, "The Moon was previously interpreted as just an unmagnetized body without a major effect on what is going on with the solar wind. We are discovering that there is nothing simple about the Moon as an obstacle to this continuous flow of electrically charged gas from the Sun."

Prosecutors have dropped murder charges from two 7- and 8-year-old boys in Chicago. Three weeks ago they were charged with the death of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in their neighborhood. Evidence of sexual assault found on the girl's underpants makes it improbable that the boys committed the crime. The boys' attorneys demanded an apology, charging that race played a big role in the arrests. Prosecutors say their case had been built on the boys' alleged confessions, but the lawyers say the cops may have fabricated the confessions or they might have been made under duress. The boys had been required to wear electronic monitoring bracelets, but a later ruling removed those and instead required 24-hour adult supervision by the boys' families.