Blistered by Western airstrikes, Moammar Qaddafi's soldiers announced their first widespread withdrawal since Europe and the United States joined Libya's civil war, leaving an important eastern town to the rebels. In Tripoli, security forces smashed cameras and confiscated memory cards after a woman barged into the hotel hosting foreign reporters to tell her story of harassment. A visual aid to the day-to-day updates.

Unrelenting outrage is building in Syria, where protesters are torching government offices a day after soldiers opened fire on—and massacred—dozens of unarmed demonstrators. We've seen how this kind of thing has played out before. And now it might also be happening in Yemen, too.

With no end in sight, despite some piecemeal progress, officials in a weary, shattered Japan won't guess how long until their nuclear crisis is solved. Meanwhile, sea water around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has become massively radioactive, and global shipping companies, afraid of contaminating their cargo, are steering way clear.

Another government collapse! Canada's George W. Bush-lite prime minister has been found "in contempt of Parliament" for apparently being secretive about how much his new anti-crime plans and tax cuts would cost.

She was the first American woman to climb to the heights of a major party political ticket, and the only one who didn't wind up with a pseudo-homespun reality show. Geraldine Ferraro, who helped Walter Mondale onto Ronald Reagan's ritual sacrifice table in 1984, was 75.

Finally! Someone got pinched over the mortgage meltdown! But don't get too excited. "Was Mr. Engle convicted of running a crooked subprime company? Was he a mortgage broker who trafficked in predatory loans? A Wall Street huckster who sold toxic assets? No. Charlie Engle wasn’t a seller of bad mortgages. He was a borrower. And the “mortgage fraud” for which he was prosecuted was something that literally millions of Americans did during the subprime bubble. Supposedly, he lied on two liar loans."

Guess what, lazy-asses? You picked the wrong line of work! And the wrong town to do it in! Seems they say Silicon Valley's the place you out ought to be...

This is a cute idea. But kind of pointless and dumb, if you ask me.

This idea is much better. Get Dish Network at Radio Shack, get something to shoot out the TV when the Winston Cup standings don't turn out the way y'all might have been hoping.

WHY, SHEE-IT, IT'S ACROSS FROM HARDEES!