Boston Police have charged a 17-year-old with a shooting outside a Roxbury housing complex Saturday night that injured three young children.

Police arrested Jermell Robinson on Tuesday night on charges that include assault with intent to murder. The Jamaica Plain resident is expected to be arraigned this morning at Roxbury District Court.

The children, two 11-year-old boys and a 12-year-old, were shot at about 8 p.m. outside the Academy Homes I apartment complex in Roxbury, which has historically been a hot spot for gang violence and where tenants are organizing to increase security.

The children were taken to Boston Medical Center and Children's Hospital with what police described at the time as non-life-threatening injuries.

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/teen_charged_in.html

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President George W Bush will host the world's first global financial summit in the US on 15 November, a White House official has said.

The meeting - the first in a series - will discuss the financial crisis and ways to prevent it recurring.

Leaders from the G20 group of nations - the world's leading industrialised countries and major developing nations - will attend.

The winner of the US presidential election will also attend the summit.

The meeting, to be held in the Washington DC area, will consider the reforms needed to avoid another financial crisis and look at the progress being made so far.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7684740.stm

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India has successfully launched its first mission to the Moon.

The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.

The robotic probe will orbit the Moon, compiling a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface and mapping the distribution of elements and minerals.

The launch is regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7679818.stm