Lachlan Murdoch has left News Corp., but Rupert still has one son to go -- James.

Muckraking columnist Jim DeFede of the Miami Herald took a call Wednesday from a well-known Florida politician -- just before that politician shot himself in the Herald's lobby.

DeFede recorded it without getting the permission of Arthur E. Teele Jr., in violation of Florida state law.

By late Wednesday, DeFede -- a talented columnist but bit of a dissident within the Herald newsroom -- was unemployed.

The Russian government summoned a senior U.S. diplomatic official in Moscow to vent after an interview with Shamil Besayev, architect of the 2004 Beslan massacre, on ABC's Nightline.

The NYT's Bob Herbert on why Dubya isn't about to cut and run from Iraq any time soon.

On Wednesday night, one 20-something woman told her friend outside the Bathurst subway station: "My first priority is to solve all my emotional problems."

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Jean Charles de Menezes is to be buried today in his home town of Gonzaga.

At least seven French citizens have died fighting for al Qaeda, Nicolas Sarkozy, France's interior minister, told a French newspaper.

Another 10 are known to be in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said, according to this BBC story.