#1 — Star | The boy who spooked the world
FORT COLLINS, Colo.–For hours on Thursday, people around the world were gripped by television images of a homemade, silvery balloon careening through the skies and whooshing over fields, trees and yards with a 6-year-old boy believed inside.
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#2 — BBC | Deadly bomb shakes Pakistani city
Eleven people have died and 15 have been injured by a bomb in Peshawar in north-western Pakistan, police say.
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NY Times | Pakistan Attacks Show Tightening of Militant Links
#3 — CNN | FDA warning: Don’t buy swine flu drugs online
(CNN) — Americans should avoid buying treatments for the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, online, the Food and Drug Administration warned.
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#4 — Fox | Iran Blasts Back at Rumors of Supreme Leader’s Death, News Site Reports
Iran is vigorously denying rumors that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei fell into a coma and died this week, an Armenian news site reported.
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#5 — Fox | Afghan Official: Presidential Runoff Vote Likely
WASHINGTON — A runoff vote is very likely between incumbent Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his closest challenger in the country’s highly contested election, Karzai’s ambassador to the United States said Thursday.
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#6 — Times | MI5 chief Jonathan Evans defends use of ‘torture intelligence’
The Director General of MI5 has issued a powerful defence of Britain’s co-operation with intelligence agencies in America and other countries accused of the abuse and torture of detainees, saying they had stopped “many attacks” in the aftermath of the September 11 strikes.
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#7 — Times | Leaked document reveals Royal Mail’s plans for union-free future
The Royal Mail is preparing to impose changes on its staff with the full backing of the Government, a leaked document revealed last night.
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#8 — Times | UN row threatens to sink Middle East peace plan
The Middle East peace process was on the brink of collapse last night as Britain and other European countries failed to back Israel in a key vote at the United Nations.
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#9 — Telegraph | Yvonne Fletcher: Tories demand Government answers over Libyan killers
The British Government is under pressure to explain why police have failed to charge two Libyan men in connection with the killing of WPc Yvonne Fletcher.
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#10 — Telegraph | Texas man faces execution after jurors consult Bible to decide fate
A convicted murderer faces execution in Texas after jurors consulted the Bible while deliberating on his sentence.
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Out of the mouths of babes…..’you said we were doing it for the show’? I could care less what the father has got to say, what else would anyone expect him to say? This has got HOAX written all over it folks.
Re UN row threatens to sink Middle East peace plan: Could it be that the days of the Israeli government influencing foreign government decisions of this nature are waning? Netanyahu is playing a dangerous game, a few years ago those sorts of threats may have had a more certain outcome, now….. well…… as with all things, where there’s smoke there’s usually fire, and Israels credibility with regard to the Gaza offensive is more than a little strained.