#1 — BBC | Tougher US air screening for ‘security-risk’ countries
The US has introduced tougher screening rules for passengers arriving by air from 14 nations which the authorities deem to be a security risk.
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#2 — BBC | Beijing disrupted by record snowfall
The authorities in Beijing have closed schools and mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.
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#3 — BBC | Chinook crash ‘may have been caused by software faults’
New evidence has emerged that computer software faults may have caused the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre, the BBC has learned.
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#4 — CNN | U.S. in grips of long-lasting cold spell
(CNN) — Dangerously cold weather had much of the United States in its grip early Monday morning, with no relief in sight for the rest of the week.
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#5 — Fox | Man Skirts Newark Airport Security; Flights Delayed
NEWARK, N.J. — A man walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal at one of the nation’s busiest airports on Sunday night, and flights were grounded for hours and passengers had to be re-screened while air safety officials searched for him.
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#6 — Fox | Yemen in ‘Unprecedented’ Push Against Al Qaeda
Yemeni forces clashed with Al Qaeda fighters Monday, leaving two militants believed to be behind threats to the U.S. dead, a security official told Reuters.
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#7 — NY Times | Hazaras Hustle to Head of Class in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — For much of this country’s history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined for generations, and in some instances massacred, by Pashtun rulers.
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#8 — Times | Children reaching age 3 without being able to say a word, survey finds
Children are reaching the age of 3 without being able to say a word, according to a survey that also found boys are almost twice as likely to struggle to learn to speak as girls.
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#9 — Times | Eighth man killed in CIA attack in Afghanistan a Jordanian spy
The eighth man killed in a suicide bomb attack on a secret CIA base in Afghanistan last week was a captain in the Jordanian spy service known as the General Intelligence Department (GID).
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#10 — Telegraph | Five-year-olds to be given compulsory lessons on money, savings and debt
Children aged five will be given compulsory lessons on managing their finances from next year as part of a range of new measures for primary schools.
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