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• • 2. WOMEN GET EQUAL SHOT AT COMBAT ROLES • The military is to announce plans today to let women train as Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other front-line jobs. • • 3. G-8 LEADERS SEEK SYRIA AGREEMENT • The leaders were to make a joint statement today on the civil war after Obama and Putin staked out opposite sides. • • 4. WHERE JIMMY HOFFA COULD TURN UP • Federal agents are digging again for the Teamster boss' remains, this time in a suburban Detroit field, after a reputed mobster said Hoffa was buried there in a barn. • • 5. NSA CHIEF GOES BEFORE CONGRESS • Army Gen. Keith Alexander is testifying before a House intelligence committee a day after the president called the agency's surveillance programs "transparent" in an interview. • • 6. WHEN ABORTIONS WOULD BE BANNED • The Republican-controlled House is expected to pass a bill today that would ban abortions after 20 weeks; the Senate is expected to ignore it. • • 7. THE STANDING MAN IN TURKEY • The lone protester stood silently for hours in Istanbul's Taksim Square, joined by about 20 others before police trying to contain the two-week-old unrest removed them. • • 8. PLANE PASSENGER RANTS ABOUT CIA, SPYING • Other passengers and a flight attendant tied the screaming man up after he asked that the U.S.-bound flight be diverted to Canada. • • 9. CHEF'S HUSBAND GIVEN WARNING AFTER ASSAULT • The British police cautioned art collector Charles Saatchi after tabloid photos emerged of him grasping food personality Nigella Lawson's throat outside a fancy restaurant. •
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