The Day's News...

• Somali pirates demanded a $35 million ransom on Saturday for a Ukrainian ship they had seized which was carrying 33 tanks and other military supplies to Kenya. Officials said pirates had released a Malaysian chemical tanker on Saturday after a $2 million ransom was paid. Pirates have captured more than 30 vessels off Somalia this year.

• With real estate values plummeting and foreclosed homes sitting empty, a family of bobcats apparently decided the time was right to pounce. So last week, they slipped out of the parched foothills of Lake Elsinore, CA and into a spacious, vacant home in well-groomed Tuscany Hills. Tuscany Hills has been hit hard by foreclosures, and the house on Vista Palermo has been empty at least six months, neighbors said.

• Private companies now sell off-the-shelf data-mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile-phone calling records and real-time location information. One of the companies demonstrated their technology by mining a dataset of a single week's worth of call data from 50 million users in Indonesia, which it has crunched in order to try and discover small anti-social groups that only call each other.

• C.S.A. Strategy Quote Of The Day: "To be candid, the (anarchists') plan caused us significant problems during the first two to three hours of this event."--St. Paul Sheriff Bob Fletcher.