- Some 29 are confirmed dead as Typhoon Talas slammed into Western Japan late Sunday, leaving record rainfall, flooding and wind damage.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has suffered significant losses in elections in her home state of Mecklenburg as leftist and Green party candidates pushed conservatives to a distant second.
- Twenty years after a deadly chicken plant fire killed 25 in Hamlet, NC, progress in worker safety measures appears to be on the wane.
- The trial of deposed Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak continues in Cairo, but cameras have been banned from the proceedings.
- Smaller tech firms are the new big battlefield players in smartphone patent wars as they line up to get a piece of the multi-billion dollar market.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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