- The siege at Nairobi's Westgate Mall continues into the third day with reports of fewer than 10 hostages remaining, 69 dead, and several Al-Shabaab gunman holed up in the complex.
- It took German hackers all of 2 days to break the encryption on Apple's iPhone 5S fingerprint reader, with video evidence of replacing the actual fingerprint with a fake one to access the phone.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel easily won her third term Sunday, with her party taking 42% of the vote and plans to form a major coalition government with her chief opposition.
- India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is waning political parties not to stoke any more political violence in the wake of that country's worst political riots in a decade leaving 50 dead.
- Under heavy pressure from the US, Spain has passed new anti-piracy laws with penalties up to six years in prison for major copyright offenders.
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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