- The US Postal Service may cut up to 35,000 jobs in the next three months as it plans to close or consolidate more than 200 mail processing centers.
- An openly-gay judge in Texas is refusing to marry any couples until same-sex marriage is legalized in the state.
- The US and North Korea are holding diplomatic talks for the first time since the death of Kim Jong-il.
- The Obama administration is cracking down on Japan's organized crime yakuza groups, freezing assets and applying sanctions.
- Researchers have found bacteria from pigs in the Netherlands was responsible for infecting a young Dutch girl, evidence that large-scale farms may breed new strains of germs.
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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