On Saturday, Valery Bolotov, a self-proclaimed governor of the neighboring Luhansk region controlled by separatists, publicly declared war on Ukraine's interim government, Ukrinform news agency reported.
Around midnight, after hours of contradictory news coverage, the new interim president then backed away from the earlier reports that Mr. ElBaradei had been offered the job.
We do not wish to do so but we cannot wait longer," Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya's interim council, told a news conference.
In Bishkek, a former interior minister in Mr. Bakiyev's government was put under house arrest by the interim government, the Interfax news service reported.
A spokeswoman for ITV said that instead of carrying content the website would instead link through to ITN.co.uk for "an interim period" while its news section was redeveloped.
On Saturday, Yemenis heard from Mr. Hadi, the country's putative leader, who issued a statement setting a date of Feb. 21 for the election of an interim president (the state news agency noted that it was a "presidential decree").
Eleven miles to the west, the Nets were meditating on an 0-17 record and preparing to name Kiki Vandeweghe, the general manager, their interim coach at a news conference scheduled for Tuesday.
Another kind of collaboration was also evident yesterday: Ninfa Segarra and Irene H. Impellizzeri, two of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's appointees to the Board of Education who opposed Mr. Levy's appointment as interim chancellor, attended the news conference.
But, from sashimi to Fiona Bruce, the same intrinsic question is posed: Do you want reasonable, ordered but interim conclusions on the news menu – or do you want to try to make sense of everything for yourself, pulling plates from the moving belt of life?
Some onlookers, such as Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, see the interim unit as good news.
