#1 — BBC | Abdullah pulls out of Afghan vote
President Hamid Karzai’s rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced in Kabul that he is withdrawing from the poll.
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#2 — BBC | Fresh storm batters Philippines
The fourth storm in a month to hit the Philippines has lashed the eastern coastal province of Quezon, bringing heavy rain and winds to the region.
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#3 — CNN | Nine remain missing after midair collision
(CNN) — Rescuers were still searching Saturday for nine people missing in the Pacific off the southern California coast after a Coast Guard C-130 plane and a Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter collided Thursday night.
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#4 — Fox | Nuclear Expert’s Death ‘Not Suicide’
A British nuclear expert who fell out of the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide, London’s Daily Mail reported a doctor who carried out a second autopsy as saying.
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DM | British nuclear expert’s 17th floor UN death plunge ‘was not suicide’
#5 — NY Times | Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India
BARSUR, India — At the edge of the Indravati River, hundreds of miles from the nearest international border, India effectively ends. Indian paramilitary officers point machine guns across the water. The dense jungles and mountains on the other side belong to Maoist rebels dedicated to overthrowing the government.
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#6 — NY Times | Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit
WASHINGTON — Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the gap, including a bipartisan commission that could force tax increases and spending cuts.
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#7 — Times | Gordon Brown plans new spending splurge
GORDON BROWN is planning a final public spending spree to help pull the economy out of recession and put pressure on the Conservatives over their plans for deep cuts.
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#8 — Times | Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr: Web gets taste for biting baby
It may be child’s play but it has made Harry and Charlie Davies-Carr two of the most recognisable Britons in the world — and earned their parents tens of thousands of pounds.
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#9 — Telegraph | Polygamy challenged as renegade Mormon group’s trial grips Texan town
Court case sheds light on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where it is alleged that bigamy and sexual abuse of girls, some as young as 12, are widespread.
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#10 — Telegraph | Six bodies found at house of a convicted rapist
A suspected serial killer has been arrested in America after six bodes were discovered hidden in and around his house.
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