The Sunday Best............

Australian Conga Lines, Here Comes the US Navy!

Washington looks to North Dakota for economic, energy blueprint

Informatio​n Disseminat​ion: Chinese Frigate Runs Aground

BLACKFIVE: Obama calls me out at campaign event

McClatchy poll shows majority favor extending all Bush tax rates

Suicide bomber kills 5 at Nigerian mosque

CDR Salamander​: Another LCS Shoe Drops

Confession​s of an Assad 'Shabiha' loyalist: how I raped and killed for £300 a month

Obama: "If you've got health insurance, you're not getting hit by a tax"

U.S. 'Most Wanted' Fugitive Caught in Mexico

BLACKFIVE: Hollywood goes to war

Peshmerga ministry calls on federal government to pull its troops out of Kirkuk, Diyala and Ninawa

Oh great, yet another new EPA regulation making things more expensive for everyone

A mine and high explosives seized in Samarra.

Blues brighten up gray day on the beach

Why I defected from Bashar al-Assad's regime, by former diplomat Nawaf Fares

Campaign to save 'last intact' Second World War Bomber Command airbase

Terrorised Chicago residents plead for police crackdown as gang war murders soar

The dairy farmer who loses 3p on every pinta

Italy's super rich yachters sail away from taxman

How Much Power Does China’s ‘People’s’ Army Have?

Crowd-sourced map highlights rape by Syrian army

and finally.........

Bug of the Week: The Day of the Cicada