#1 — BBC | US healthcare bill passes first Senate hurdle in vote
The US Senate has narrowly voted to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country’s healthcare.
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#2 — BBC | Egypt’s President Mubarak enters Algeria football row
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has stepped into a row with Algeria, vowing he will not tolerate the “humiliation” of Egyptian nationals abroad.
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#3 — CNN | Students in tuition hike protest expect police intervention soon
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Students occupying an administration building at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the past three nights expect police to soon begin forcibly removing them, a student spokesman said.
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#4 –Fox | Woman Loses Benefits Over Facebook Photos
BROMONT, Quebec — A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave says she lost her benefits because of photos on Facebook and she’s fighting to get them reinstated.
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#5 — Fox | Report: Kennedy Barred From Communion for Stance on Abortion
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman’s support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
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#6 — DM | Madeleine McCann detective facing £1m fraud charge
A private detective whose company was paid up to £500,000 from publicly donated funds to find Madeleine McCann has been charged with fraud.
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#7 — DM | How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world
Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen.
But that is not the only scandal in the shipping world. Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – reveals that the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers pump out killer chemicals linked to thousands of deaths because of the filthy fuel they use.
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#8 — Times | Hamid Karzai ministers face Afghanistan corruption charges
Warrants have been signed for the arrest of two Afghan cabinet ministers on charges of theft and fraud, highlighting the extent of alleged corruption in the government of President Hamid Karzai.
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#9 — Times | Wildfires sweep across eastern Australia
Hundreds of homes in eastern Australia are under threat from huge wildfires as record temperatures and strong winds create the worst bushfire threat in 100 years in New South Wales.
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#10 — Telegraph | Iraq report: Secret papers reveal blunders and concealment
The “appalling” errors that contributed to Britain’s failure in Iraq are disclosed in the most detailed and damning set of leaks to emerge on the conflict.
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