#1 — BBC | Afghan MPs back Karzai’s foreign minister choice
The Afghan parliament has backed Zalmay Rasul as Foreign Minister, a key member of President Hamid Karzai’s revised list of cabinet nominations.
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#2 — BBC | US to protest formally to China over Google ‘attacks’
The US state department says it will make a formal protest to China over alleged cyber-attacks on the internet search giant, Google.
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#3 — BBC | Kenya police shoot hate cleric al-Faisal supporters
At least five people have died after Kenyan police opened fire at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred.
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#4 — CNN | Palin: Fox gig doesn’t close the door to 2012
(CNN) – Despite speculation from some political observers that Sarah Palin has ruled out a 2012 presidential bid in favor of a television career at Fox news, the former Alaska governor said all options still remain on the table.
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#5 — Fox | WHO Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
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#6 — Fox | Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error
SAN FRANCISCO – A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.
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#7 — DM | Families face shock 20% rise in heating bills
Families face record winter gas bills averaging £360 as power companies reap a huge windfall from the big freeze.
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#8 — Times | UKIP woos white working class
The UK Independence Party is to call for a ban on the burka and the niqab — the Islamic cloak that covers women from head to toe and the mask that conceals most of the face — claiming they affront British values. The policy, which a number of European countries are also debating, is an attempt by UKIP to broaden its appeal and address the concerns of disaffected white working-class voters.
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#9 — Times | Cracks are appearing in plan to build up the Afghan army
Afghan soldiers surprised the roadside bombers as they laid a device south of Garmsir. According to one British officer familiar with the incident, there were five bombers. The Afghan army unit that found them had just lost three of their own to a roadside bomb. So three of the Taleban were killed by the road.
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#10 — Telegraph | Ukraine expected to elect ‘Russian candidate’
Ukraine is expected to elect as president the man favoured by Vladimir Putin as it abandons its flirtation with the West to return to Russia’s sphere of influence.
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