In news that's probably going to make you want to shake your head and sigh, it seems Pakistani government officials, still sore from the Osama bin Laden raid, have become so paranoid about spies that they're cracking down on international aid--to the detriment of their people.
Apparently America's nuns are being way too lenient on gay rights, abortion, and women's ordination--which is why the Vatican reprimanded and ordered disciplinary action against the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States.
The New York Times on the U.S.'s energy boom and the fate of nuclear energy, The Guardian on bees, AccuWeather on icebergs, and the Associated Press on seals
And things were going so well with North Korea. The secretive, ornery regime in Pyongyang which agreed to stop enriching uranium and stop testing long-range missiles in exchange for food aid from the U.S. is now planning to launch a rocket. For science, though.
U.S. diplomats this morning are trumpeting an agreement they reached with North Korea to end its enrichment of uranium and its frightening, chest-thumping long-range missile tests. Does this signal a friendlier regime under Kim Jong-Un?
Bucking the trend of the currently-escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, the American Navy has rescued a 13-member crew of an Iranian fishing boat who had been held hostage by Somalian pirates for 40 days.
Now that robots have proven they can clear IEDs, tour the then-radioactive Fukushima nuclear power plant, and observe endangered tortoises, the next natural step for these overachievers is investigating dangerous drug tunnels.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson makes light of Iran's newly-acquired drone.
The Iranian government is airing images of the captured U.S drone plane on its state-run, English-language TV station this evening, reports CNN, and it looks like it's in pretty good shape considering that Iran claimed to have shot it down.
Following the publicized lack of an Obama apology for the airstrikes which ended in the friendly-fire death of 24 Pakistani soldiers, the U.S. is vacating a drone base in Shamsi base in Pakistan--a move that sounds way more serious than it actually is.
In exchange for releasing Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old American aid worker who they may or may not be holding captive, al Qaeda is demanding an end to airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen; the release of Taliban suspects worldwide; and the release of all Guantanamo detainees.
U.S. officials are claiming that Pakistan had given their approval for the American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistan soldiers on Saturday, adding to the messy aftermath and political posturing of this friendly-fire tragedy.
The White House has decided that President Obama will not apologize to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, which means Pakistan will have to settle for a sorry from Hillary Clinton instead.
In news that sounds scarier than it might actually be, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a threat that Russia can aim its missiles at the U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if his concerns about the U.S. missile defense shield aren't met, according to the AP.
Robert Samuelson on the debt deal, Jane Mayer on Keystone XL, Gordon Crovitz on tent cities, Lawrence Summers on income inequality, and Yan Xuetong on China's rise.
Russia and China are spinning why they won't condemn the Syrian regime
Cartoonist Steve Benson on Palestine's bid for statehood
Presidents must renew the embargo annually under a decades-old act
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Reactions to a report that the FBI bugged the Israeli Embassy in Washington
The state-run news agency emphasizes that the teams have made up
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