#1 — BBC | Japan ‘will end’ Afghan mission
Japan will end its refuelling mission in support of the US-led military operation in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa has said.
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#2 — CNN | First woman wins Nobel Prize for economics
(CNN) — Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for economics for work on how community institutions can prevent conflict, the Nobel Committee announced Monday.
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#3 — Fox | Obama Quietly Authorizes 13,000 More U.S. Troops for Afghanistan
In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March, according to a published report.
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#4 — Fox | Health Reform Bill Faces Critical Senate Vote
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s plan to remake the nation’s health care system is about to take its biggest step yet toward becoming reality.
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NY Times | Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans
#5 — DM | Labour MPs turn on Brown over expenses
Labour MPs turned on Gordon Brown last night over expenses as they railed against a ruthless audit ordering them to pay back large sums to the taxpayer.
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#6 — NY Times | Eastern Europe Fears New Era of Russian Dominance
MOSCOW — With an ambitious new pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe.
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#7 — NY Times | Iranian Journalists Flee, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests
TORONTO — For two months Ehsan Maleki traveled around Iran with a backpack containing his cameras, a few pieces of clothing and his laptop computer, taking pictures of the reformist candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi during the presidential campaign. He did not know that his backpack and his cameras would soon become his only possessions, or that he would be forced to crawl out of the country hiding in a herd of sheep.
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#8 — Times | Brown’s £16bn assets sale ‘fraught with difficulties’, critics warn
Plans to sell off £16 billion of government assets, including the Tote, the Dartford Crossing, the student loan book and the Channel Tunnel rail link, were branded a “national car boot sale” yesterday.
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#9 — Times | Hadron Collider physicist Adlene Hicheur charged with terrorism
A French physicist with the European atomic research centre near Geneva was charged with terrorism offences by a Paris judge last night after investigators said that he offered to work with the North African branch of al-Qaeda.
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#10 — Telegraph | Two-year-old with same IQ as Einstein
Oscar Wrigley, a two-year-old with the same IQ as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, has become the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted into Mensa.
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