The BBC's Damian Grammaticas seems to think so. He wrote a feature on the just-concluded battle of Panjwaii. He talked about the difficulty of the terrain, the natural advantages of the Taliban, and one officer's approval of the decision to send tanks over.

Dean Baquet, editor of the Los Angeles Times, is butting heads with his corporate betters at Tribune Co. He will not implement the job cuts the parent company has requested.

Liberation, founded by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, could be on track for a major financial crisis as early as Sept. 28.

A Belgian judge has ordered Google to remove all links to French and German-language newspaper stories published in Belgium. The order came in response to a copyright lawsuit launched by some Belgian publishers.

Back in February, the Beeb ran this story: Sudanese man forced to 'marry' goat. A dowry payment was apparently required because he had sex with the animal. Given the hundreds of thousands of news stories in the world since, one would think it would have been quickly forgotten.

All of a sudden, though, the story caught fire again recently. An excerpt from the Beeb's The Editors blog (posting by Adam Curtis, world editor of BBC Online):

CTV.ca ran an election blog during this past winter's federal campaign. Everyone thought that worked out reasonably well.

As a result, the site launched a politics blog on Monday, which can be found at http://politicsblog.ctv.ca.

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