From the BBC:

The number of soldiers killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy in north-western Pakistan has risen to 24, a Pakistan army spokesman has said.

Twenty-nine others were also hurt when the convoy was hit in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan.

Major General Waheed Arshad admitted the attack could be linked to the storming of the Red Mosque this week.

Troops have been sent close to the area amid fears militants may be planning a "holy war" in response to the siege. ...

In the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday more than 1,000 demonstrators vowed to avenge the death of the mosque's deputy leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. ...

In Islamabad, hundreds of demonstrators attended a rally organised by Pakistan's main alliance of radical parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.

"This carnage will prove to be the last nail in the coffin of Musharraf's dictatorial rule in Pakistan," the group's deputy leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hydri told the gathering.

"Now there will be Red Mosques everywhere in Pakistan."

There is also this Beeb feature: Jihadis tap anti-Musharraf feeling

Early on in her husband's trial, Barbara Amiel Black called one TV producer a slut and told others: "'You're all vermin, you make me sick,'" according to one account. "I used to be a journalist and I never door-stepped people."

The Toronto Star also picked up this nugget from Amiel Black's writings:

In Macleans, she wrote that through the glass of the courthouse, the journalists with their gear resembled "the clustered underbellies of insects attempting to crawl up the window panes."

Eeew. Does she feel bugs crawling all over her?

The Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente on why Martha Stewart understands the times better than Conrad Black.

The Toronto Star's David Olive, a long-time critic of Black, on why Conrad doesn't deserve much sympathy.

The Globe and Mail's Jacquie McNish thinks Conrad Black would have been better off to kiss and make up with his angry shareholders five years ago. True, but then he wouldn't be Conrad.

The Globe and Mail's Paul Waldie reports that some small-town newspapermen and Conrad Black's own secretary did more damage to the tycoon's case than the glamour witnesses like David Radler:

Over in jolly old England, the Black verdict is the top story on all national newspaper websites. Some screencaps follow ...