There are fears that Rory Carroll, Baghdad correspondent for the UK newspaper The Guardian, has been kidnapped.

A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest order for three U.S. soldiers involved in a 2003 incident in Baghdad, Iraq in which a U.S. tank fired on the Palestine Hotel, known for housing journalists. A Spanish TV cameraman and a Reuters journalist were killed.

A report from The Register about the much-hyped Wikipedia.

I guess the question we all have to ask is this: If Pittsburgh is unprepared, can any city say it is truly ready?

Sometimes complete strangers exhibit admirably -- not to mention unexpectedly -- generous behaviour in an environment that, at its best, produces strained politeness.

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