Milestones

DETAINED. Khaleel Aziz Sheikh, 24, Kamal Ahmed Ansari, 32, and Mumtaz Ahmed Chowdhury, 38, in connection with the July 11 Bombay train bombings that killed more than 180 commuters; in Bombay and Bihar. The three suspects are the first to be arrested by police investigators, who after the blasts rounded up as many as 350 people—most of them Muslim—for questioning. A fourth man, Abdulkadir Karim Tunda, 64, a suspected member of Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, was also detained last Thursday in Kenya. Officials say more arrests are forthcoming.

DIED. Robert Brooks, 69, canny businessman who, as chairman of...