Recommended Headlines from Every Time Zone

  [Because the United States is not quite the center of the world; Updated throughout the day at the Notebooks’ home site]

1. Supreme Ct. allows Padilla transfer to civilian court (NYT)


2. Sharon has "massive" stroke, fights for life (Jerusalem Post)


3. Swan beheaded in Belfast (Belfast Telegraph)


4. Research breakthrough on breast cancer? (The Age)


5. Spain cancels Bolivia's $120 million debt (Reuters)


6. Canadian poet, Nobel nominee Irving Layton dies (TG&M)


7. One measure of poverty up 37% in Japan (Japan Today)


8. As in 1960s, NSA began US spying well before 9/11 (NYT)


9. In WVa blast, only one miner survives (WV Gazette)


10. WVa's Sago Mine had a history of infractions (WV Gazette)


11. Iraq: US raid kills 12 civilians, bomber kills 30 (WPost)


12. Bush back on Patriot Act road show (WPost)


13. Secret services say Iran shopping for nukes (Guardian)


14. Simultaneous blasts in 3 Nepal cities (Statesman, India)


15. Global warming down under: Australia frets (The Age)


16. Pay-per-view Freedom of Information Act? (London Times)


17. 64% of Iceland's births out of wedlock (Iceland Review)


18. It isn't just American: Debt and the British (Independent)


19. Art or porn? The Bush-Chirac-QEII sex romp (Der Spiegel)


20. US to Iraqi rebuilding effort: Drop dead (Washington Post)


21. Prison Nation: US exercises expertise in Iraq (DTelegraph)


22. Snarls over prophet drawings in Denmark (Copnhgn Post)