AMF: News

Reports: U.S. suspends missile defense shield plans (CNN, BBC, Guardian, Times); Wired: Dear Poland, Happy Soviet Invasion Day. Love, Uncle Sam - President Obama picks Russia, a strategic competitor with a habit of bullying American allies and supporting American enemies, over Poland, a firm NATO ally that has deployed troops to both Afghanistan and Iraq, on the seventieth anniversary of the Russia invasion of Poland. Wow.

First rocky planet found outside solar system (CNN, Times) - Money quote: [It is so close to the star it orbits "that the place may well look like Dante's Inferno, with a probable temperature on its 'day face' above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius) and minus-328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius) on its night face," said Didier Queloz of Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, the project leader.] Do people even bother reading Dante anymore? Earth to jackass Swiss scientist: in The Inferno, Hell is portrayed as cold, not hot - Satan is trapped in ice. A reputable journalist would have caught that.

BBC: Gaddafi son calls for democracy

BBC: Viking silver - The skills that prepare dark ages treasure for display

BBC video: Troops trained on spotting IED's

Times: 'Arms ship' makes another odd voyage

Times: Friends like Carter are all Obama needs

Times: Japan ready to withdraw from Afghanistan