Spectators see it every time an umpire calls a ball or strike.
In a landmark antiterrorism verdict, a New York jury convicted four followers of Osama bin Laden yesterday for their parts in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. Ukraine's parliament approved Anatoly Kinakh as prime minister yesterday, a key sign that President Leonid Kuchma may have weathered a political crisis caused by allegations of involvement in the slaying of an opposition journalist. Conservative Party Leader William Hague is desperately attempting to turn next week's election into a referendum on joining the euro, the single European currency. But so far, his effort has turned into just more trouble for the party. A Canadian man may have tried to kill himself in Saudi Arabian custody rather than be tortured, sources suggested yesterday.