A busload of tourists goes over the side of a high bridge – Hackers confirm they are able to take control of cars with computers – And Turkey accuses a Pigeon of spying for Israel, possibly without realizing how ludicrous that is.

A tour bus plunged off a bridge near Avellino, outside Naples killing 37 Italians returning home after a weekend trip.  Eleven people are hurt, some of them critically.   The bus appears to have hit some cars before plowing through the safety barrier, leaving the road and falling 30 meters down a ravine.  News agencies showed bodies covered with sheets lining the side of the road during the grim recovery effort.  The driver was killed in the wreck.

Provisional manslaughter charges are now filed against the driver of the high-speed train that derailed in northwestern Spain last week, killing 78 people.  Francisco Jose Garzon Amo is free but surrendered his passport to the investigating judge.  The newspaper El Pais said Garzon had admitted to "recklessness" in court.  He believed to have tried to take a bend at twice the speed limit, crashing the train..

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is the apparent winner in this weekend’s election, although his majority has been significantly eroded amid a widening income cap and corruption allegations.  Opposition parties are considering whether to accept the result, because human rights monitors say the election was marred by voter registration irregularities and intimidation.

Japan and China could soon hold a top-level summit, according to an advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  Sino-Japanese ties have soured recently over China’s claims on Islands that Japan has held for more than a hundred years, as well as fears Abe wants to whitewash Japan’s World War II history of human rights abuses.  China last week sounded cool on the idea, but the Japanese envoy says privately, Beijing is alarmed about the rapidly escalating tensions.

In New York City, Anthony Weiner’s campaign manager has quit after the former congressman admitted last week he was involved in raunchy “sexting” with women outside his marriage, long after he had earlier claimed he stopped.  Weiner’s poll numbers have drooped (ha) since the new revelations.

The secrets of “hacking” a car are coming out.  Well-known computer software hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek say they will reveal detailed blueprints of techniques for attacking critical systems in the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, at the “Def Con” hackers conference in Las Vegas this week.  They’ve already figured out how to make a car’s brakes stop working, or suddenly jerk the steering.  The “white hat” hackers work with a US government grant to expose software flaws in order to make manufacturers build better products.

After a thorough investigation, Turkey has released a pigeon it was detaining on suspicion of spying for Israel.  I wish I were making this up.  Villagers in Altinayva found the bird with a ring around its foot embossed with “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel”.  Rather than take a chance with common sense (birds are often tagged to track their migratory routes), they brought it to police, who had it x-rayed and examined to make sure it wasn’t carrying secret microchips or cameras.