CNN promo'd a story on the search for master terrorist Osama bin Laden with the headline "Where's Obama?" Barack Obama, of course, is the junior Senator from Illinois and a probable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

Unlike Osama, Obama has no known connection with al Qaeda. And his whereabouts are generally known! :^)

An excerpt from the AP story on CTV.ca:

The blunder came Monday evening on Wolf Blitzer's news show The Situation Room. Both Soledad O'Brien and Blitzer offered separate apologies during CNN's morning show Tuesday.

CNN called it a "bad typographical error" by its graphics department.

"We want to apologize for that bad typo," Blitzer said. "We also want to apologize personally to Senator Barack Obama. I'm going to be making a call to him later this morning to offer my personal apology."

The ongoing war in Afghanistan has been picked the top Canadian news story for 2006 by the country's newspaper editors and broadcasters. However, I have a small bone to pick with the CP story.

Start-ups with names like Powerset, Hakia, ChaCha and Snap are hoping to beat the search king at its own game.