- The FBI wants ISPs to keep origin and destination information of every URL visited by their customers for up to two years.
- India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced that it was creating its own panel of experts to explore climate change because the UN studies cannot be trusted. “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,” Ramesh said.
- The UN Climate Change Panel has another embarrassment as one of its reports declared that 55% of the Netherlands is below sea level. That is over double the actual figure.
- Sarah Palin has not paid any property taxes on two plots with cabins that she owns.
- Indonesia is going to relocate a 43-inch statue of Barack Obama from a park to a school that he attended in the late 1960’s. Local residents felt it was improper to have a statue of a person who has done nothing for Indonesia except live there for a few years.
- “Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money,” RNC Chair Michael Steele said.
- Indonesia’s 45-year-old anti-blasphemy law is facing its first challenge before the Constitutional Court.
- The Pentagon has released for the first time the names of 645 prisoners held at the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Bagram is also known as the Afghan Guantanamo.
