A woman found a suspicious package in her backyard here on Sunday. Police identified the package as a brand new hand grenade, belonging to the Canadian Army. According to Reuters, the woman called police after she found the package; she delivered it to the local police station where she was directed to carefully place it on the lawn.

The runway of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam has been closed due to the discovery of an unexploded WWII bomb during excavations on Monday. The 500-pound British bomb has been unearthed in the nearby town of Vijfhuizen which forced the closure of one of the five runways of the airport.

The Air Force base that sparked a controversy last year because its B-52 crews unknowingly flew nuclear missiles has failed a nuclear security test from Defense Department inspectors. Personnel at the 5th Bomb Wing's Minot Air Force Base here failed to counter simulated nuclear security challenges that earned it an "unsatisfactory" grade in that category from inspectors on Sunday, based on a report of the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency that was cited on the Air Force Times website. The tests were conducted for a week starting May 17.

Palau President Thomas Remengesau Jr. extended his stay Thursday at Philippine International Airport for 12 hours when he refused to be frisked by staff of Continental Airline, which was the standard aviation procedure, officials said. Remengesau refused to undergo a body frisking procedure at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Wednesday evening prior to boarding a Continental Airline flight.

Authorities at Yakima airport in Washington evacuated the terminal and temporarily closed the airport Sunday when they found two training grenades inside a passenger's travel bag. However, mo one was hurt from the incident. About 35 people inside the terminal were evacuated before bomb experts from the U. S. Army called in by police arrived to defuse the bomb, which contained no explosives.