#1 — BBC | Nato ministers consider Afghanistan pull-out plan
Nato foreign ministers are expected to consider criteria for deciding how and when to hand over responsibility for Afghanistan to the government there.
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Times | Taleban rift ignites power struggle over who controls the insurgency
#2 — BBC | X-37B military spaceplane launches from Cape Canaveral
A prototype spaceplane developed for the US military has been launched into orbit from Florida.
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#3 — CNN | Oil slick spreads from sunken rig
A 1-by-5-mile sheen of crude oil mix has spread across the Gulf of Mexico’s surface around the area where an oil rig exploded and sank, a Coast Guard lieutenant said Thursday.
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#4 — Fox | Republicans Slam SEC Over Porn Surfing Report
WASHINGTON — Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation’s financial system.
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#5 — Fox | Deadly Airborne Fungus Spreading in Northwest
WASHINGTON — A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
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#6 — NY Times | U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes
WASHINGTON — In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an hour and with such accuracy and force that they would greatly diminish America’s reliance on its nuclear arsenal.
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#7 — DM | Has Nick’s novelty worn off?
The Tories and Labour both claimed to have slowed the Lib Dem bandwagon today after a far more confrontational TV debate left everything to play for in the final fortnight of the election campaign.
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#8 — Times | Volcano: Europe’s airspace ash-free as Iceland forced to close airports
The skies above Europe were declared almost entirely clear of volcanic ash this morning after a change in wind direction which finally forced Iceland to close its airports.
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#9 — Times | Belgian politics in crisis as Prime Minister quits again
It is an unenviable record: quitting twice, forgetting the national anthem and insulting half the population by calling them lazy or stupid. Yesterday Europe’s most accident-prone Prime Minister threw in the towel for a third time, plunging Belgium into a fresh existential crisis.
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#10 — Telegraph | OK Corral inquest transcript found in Arizona jailhouse store room
The real story of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, which shaped the mythology of the Wild West, has been unearthed in the words of the people who witnessed it.
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