Around the World in 80 Dailies

Updated Monday, January 9, 2006 8:16 AM EST

1. 53 % of Americans want Alito confirmed (WPost)


2. Questioning, from Australia, cost of US alliance (The Age)


3. Delhi shivers on coldest day in 70 years (The Hindu)


4. False alarm: Cheney in and out of hospital (Reuters)


5. Turkey to release Pope gunman (BBC)


6. Close Guantanamo, says German chancellor (Der Spiegel)


7. 10 million girls aborted as Indians seek male heirs (Ind't)


8. Fiji military boss threatens coup (New Zealand Herald)


9. Scandal of force-fed prisoners at Guantanamo (Guardian)


10. Guantanamo's 16-year-old grenade thrower (Toronto Star)


11. Former Syrian VP calls for popular revolt (BBC)


12. Taliban torch co-ed school in Afghanistan (Al-Jazeera)


13. She slept with 50,000 men, never got AIDS (Globe & Mail)


14. Compensation for uprooted Palestinian trees (Haaretz)


15. Sex and the Saudis: on Arab hypocrisy (Arab News, SA)


16. Loch Ness Monster trumped Cold War priorities (Times)


17. Porn industry's annual awards Vegas party (LAT/Blog)


18. Conservatism shaped Alito in 70s (Washington Post)


19. Scotland also fighting obesity epidemic (Scotsman)


20. Shia accuse US of appeasing insurgents (Independent)


21. China aims for pop. below 1.37 bln by 2010 (People's Daily)


22. US generals disagree over exploding Iraqi violence (SMH)