Wrestling makes an Olympic comeback – Scientists may have learned something important in keeping a new disease from becoming an epidemic – And a community that eliminated police suspects officers of a heinous attack.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has restored Wrestling to the summer games.  The decision guaranteed that freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling would be contested at least through the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo and the 2024 Olympics, which have yet to be awarded.  Back in February, the IOC planned to end wrestling as a core event after the 2016, complaining the sport had become boring and difficult to follow.  Wrestling’s international governing board reformed the rules, and now it’s back.

A Thai Airways Airbus 330-300 skidded off the runway at Bangkok’s main international airport late last night.  14 people were hurt.  Flight TG 679 had just arrived from Guangzhou, China when the nose gear gave out and the plane skidded to a halt on the runway.  Thai aviation authorities are investigating.

A cocktail of two well-known antiviral drugs has been found to protect monkeys against a deadly coronavirus causing problems in the Mideast, and scientists hope to transfer that success to human patients.  “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome” (MERS) has infected 108 people since it emerged in 2013, and killed about half of them.  The drugs are ribavirin and interferon, already used on humans to treat Hepatitis-C.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is condemning a NATO airstrike that according to local officials killed as many as to 16 civilians in the lawless eastern part of Afghanistan.  NATO was targeting Taliban fighters and says it has received no reports of civilian casualties.

A veteran Egyptian bureaucrat has been brought in to lead the effort to revamp the country’s constitution as the interim government ostensibly moves to restore Democracy.  Amr Moussa was a stalwart in the government of deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak.  He’ll tackle repairing the constitution after removing the Islamist amendments forced through by widely unpopular deposed president Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

At least 18 people have been killed in clashes with Boko Haram Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria.  Although most of the dead are from a vigilante group protecting villages from the militants, the fight shows that the vigilantes are standing up to and causing more trouble for Boko Haram.  The government is encouraging these groups to help it in its fight against the militants, who’ve killed thousands of people since its insurgency stared in 2009.

The government blames criminal gangs in an attack on a bar in rural Guatemala that killed eleven people and wounded 15 more.  But residents of San Jose Nacahuil, a poor indigenous village outside the capital, blame corrupt police officers.  Six years ago, they had expelled the national police and virtually eliminated all crime on their own.  After the slaughter, the government returned national police to San Jose Nacahuil, armed with automatic weapons, body armor, and jaunty black uniforms to “protect the population”. 

Tens of thousands of people jammed the center of Mexico City to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto’s plan to privatize the state-run oil company.  Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) has since the 1930s enjoyed independence from outside influence has been a source of national pride for decades.  Opposition protesters hope pressure will halt Nieto’s privatization plan, which has strong support in state legislatures.