Wikinews Shorts: April 27, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Friday, April 27, 2007. Contents 1 Stephen Hawking goes weightless 2 Saudi Arabia arrests 172 militants 3 Abdullah Gül does not get presidency in first round 4 Chinese cat reportedly gives birth to 'poodle' 5 Top al-Qaeda operative reported in US custody 65-year-old scientist Stephen Hawking took a ride on the "Vomit Comet", an airplane producing weightlessness by following a parabolic flight path. He did this to show awareness for space exploration. The flight took off and landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Hawkin