From the Guardian:

Fanning out across yesterday's news stands, the front pages of the British tabloids offered a rogues' gallery of female stereotypes, all of them applied to one woman: Heather Mills. The Daily Mail cast her as the proud, cunning gold-digger, definitively hoisted by her own petard, with a front-page headline screaming "Damnation of her ladyship". The Daily Mirror opted to give her the mantle of the hysteric, dubbing her "Lady Liar", a stereotype also seized upon in the Daily Express headline "Judge savages fantasist Heather". And then there was the Sun which, in usual subtle style, opted for a headline combining "hysteric" with "whore": the simple, inventive "Pornocchio".

From washingtonpost.com:

In the last six years, the international community has set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for Afghan poppy eradication, built a state-of-the-art maximum-security facility for drug traffickers outside Kabul and dispatched hundreds of troops to try to persuade farmers to plant wheat, fruit trees and saffron instead of poppies.

The result of those efforts: Last year Afghanistan produced 90 percent of the world's opium and its derivative, heroin -- more than at any time in the country's history. The only major drug traffickers held in the new prison wing were allowed to escape. And a special international fund for motivating Afghan leaders to eradicate poppies has barely been touched, according to international officials involved in Afghan anti-drug efforts.

A New York state legislator wants to put the brakes on how much non-consentual commercial use online companies can make of the information they collect on people.

What woman appears in both Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy in a speaking role, speaking in both to Robert DeNiro's characters?

No IMDBing! :)

From the Globe and Mail:

Normally, media companies are defendants in legal disputes over commentary and publishing. But not CanWest, it seems. A couple of weeks ago, we told you about a lawsuit CanWest has launched against West Coast website The Tyee. Now another has surfaced, involving, on one level, questions about trademark and allegations of a conspiracy "to embarrass and to injure" media giant CanWest.

From the BBC:

A Moroccan man jailed for pretending to be the brother of the king on the social networking site Facebook has been given a royal pardon.

Fouad Mourtada's lawyer said his client had left the Casablanca jail where he was serving his three-year sentence.

He had been arrested at the beginning of February for "usurping the identity of Prince Moulay Rachid".

From the BBC:

Media rights activists in Sri Lanka have criticised the appointment of a retired army officer to a senior post in the state-run television station.

From the BBC:

A cartoonist in Bangladesh who was jailed after the government said his drawings were insulting to Muslims has been released, prison officials say.