Egypt weighs banning the Muslim Brotherhood after days of terrible violence – Japanese Nationalists sail to disputed islands that China claims – Scotland Yard looks at “new” evidence in the death of Princess Diana – And a descendant of Queen Victoria is busted for a decidedly un-regal crime.

Egyptian police and military forces have cleared the al-Fath Mosque, epicenter of the Muslim Brotherhood’s resistance to the forces that ousted unpopular president Mohammed Morsi and installed a transitional government until the next elections.  The interim Prime Minister is considering a plan to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood as a political party after the streets battles of the past few days.  At least 700 people are dead, probably a lot more.

Five boats carrying about 20 members of a Japanese nationalist group have sailed to the waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Japanese territory for more than a century but recently claimed by China.  The move risks further enflaming tensions between the two countries.  The nationalists claim they have no plans to land on the Senkakus.

Bad weather and rough seas are forcing the Philippines to suspend rescue and recovery operations in the ferry disaster near Cebu.  The MV Thomas Aquinas collided with a cargo ship on Friday night. 31 people are dead and 170 are still missing, but 629 people survived.

Near the Rialto Bridge in the canals of Venice, a traditional gondola and a waterbus collided; A 50-year old German tourist was killed and a 3-year old girl suffered head injuries and she and the rest of her family were tossed into the canal water.  Canal traffic is pretty heavy and tends to get worse with the influx of tourists at this time of year.

The UPS cargo jet that crashed in Alabama last week was flying on autopilot until seconds before impact.  This is even though controllers had issued an alert that the Airbus A300 was coming in too quickly and too low.  Both pilots were killed.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, under pressure for allowing too much graft to go unpunished, is announcing a new corruption crackdown.  And some of that pressure is coming from one of the country’s biggest celebrities, glamour model and singer Diosa Canales, who announced on twitter that “where there is no justice, there is no peace.”  Critics say that Maduro’s stabs at corruption in state-owned industries tend to look a lot like purges of political opponents.

Mexican troops captured one of the country’s most-wanted criminals, the leader of the marijuana and cocaine smuggling Gulf Cartel.  The apprehension of Mario Ramirez Trevino is the second high profile arrest since President Enrique Pena Nieto came to power last December.

Scotland Yard confirms investigators are assessing new information it has received about the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed for relevance and credibility.  The pair was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997.  A 2006 investigation dismissed conspiracy theories around the deaths.

The former Princess of Romania, a direct descendant of Queen Victoria has been arrested for allegedly running a ghastly cockfighting ring in the United States.  Prosecutors say 60-year old Irina Walker and her ex-cop husband organized ten cockfighting events in Oregon in 2012 and 2013, in which spectators paid to watch birds with razor blades attached to their feet kill each other.  The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine.  Irina’s 91-year old father King Michael, who was forced by the Communists to abdicate in 1947, noted the charges against his daughter “with deep sorrow”.