Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is giving us a reasonable facsimile of what Osama bin Laden would sound like if he were an actual elected leader.

From musing about wiping Israel off the map, Iran's president is now talking about the 'myth' of the Holocaust.

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A cab driver excuses himself for his persistent cough, but also offers this reassurance to his passenger: "Don't worry: I don't have the aviation flu."

The CIA is much too modest about its role in the Sept. 11, 1973 coup in Chile when describing things in its World "Facts" Book.

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Wanna see a film where journalists are made to look good? Try Good Night, and Good Luck, or Capote. Wanna see one where they look bad? King Kong, Munich and The Constant Gardener might be more to your liking.

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The LAT has given up on a national print edition, and instead will work on beefing up its Web presence.

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This NYT article looks at how the Chinese government is working to keep the Chinese public from learning that as many as 20 protesters may have been killed by the police during a recent protest against a power plant in Guangdong province.

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While the U.S. and Myanmar are tied at number six for jailing five journalists each, they have to try harder if they want to catch up with China.

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Chad is 10th up from the bottom of the UN human development index, or number 167. To compound its problems, it is one of the most corrupt places on earth.

And now the government wants to spend more of its relatively limited oil wealth on security and general government revenues instead of poverty reduction.

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