Armed men in masks stole an estimated $6. 3 million USD (30 million DKK) in what authorities say is the second largest bank heist in Danish history. Police say six robbers forcibly entered a cash depot in Glostrup, a suburban area in Copenhagen, using a forklift to smash through the building's wall. According to the International Herald Tribune, the robbers were armed with assault rifles and submachine guns. A number of the depot's employees were in the building when the incident took place, but no one was injured.

Technology is displacing the telephone directory from American households. Environmentalists and households, among others, are now questioning the wisdom of printing 2,000 pages of phone numbers hardly touched by consumers who prefer speed dialing features of their mobile units or Internet search engines to find a contact number. A number of apartment buildings in South Boston reported 2008 editions of newly delivered phone books remain untouched in foyers.

Powerful winds blew off a building scaffold, causing a worker to plunge to his death from 13 floors. The fatality was identified as Jose Palacios, a 43-year-old Mexican migrant worker who was installing stucco at the top floor of a building under construction along Clinton Avenue. A second worker was also blown off, but he sustained only minor injuries after he fell on a landing one floor below, while a third crew held on to a roof bulkhead.

Hundreds of displaced monkeys from a demolished wildlife park have made an Indonesian village their new sanctuary burglarizing homes and demanding food from villagers. An Antara report quote a resident of Mangliawan village in East Java province as telling a local news website that the macaque invasion started three months ago when their sanctuary in the nearby Wendit recreational park was partly cleared to give way to new structures.

Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing has said that the 9/11 attacks were not as bad as the reign of terror waged by the IRA on mainland Britain. The Associated Press (AP) reports Lessing, in conversation with the leading Spanish daily El Pais, as saying "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "