From the BBC:

The editor of Sudan's Citizen newspaper has told the BBC he will not comply with a government ban.

Nhial Bol said the order to stop publishing his paper was "political", and because the managing editor was from the war-torn Darfur region.

I went to a session at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies today to listen to Arif Lalani, Canada's former ambassador to Afghanistan. He talked about defining success in Afghanistan.

My question was as follows:

How many Taliban are there today? How many were there five years ago? If there are more today, what does that say about the success of reconstruction efforts to date? If there are fewer, why are there still so many security problems there?

From the BBC:

A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998 "hockey stick" graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly correct.

The Toronto Star looks at how the businesses turned upside down by a major fire on Queen Street six months ago are coping, and how much progress is being made towards filling the hole in the block. The quick answer? Not much.