Here are today’s top stories in no particular order:
- The ultra-Orthodox Shas party has joined in the coalition government in Israel under incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- A 15-year-old Michigan boy has died after being tasered by police. The cops were allegedly trying to break up a fight with the Taser gun.
- Nicholas Hughes, son of Sylvia Plath, has committed suicide, 46 years after his mother’s infamous suicide.
- The trial begins today for the gunman responsible for the November Mumbai attacks. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab is charged with 12 counts, including waging war on India.
- New York City radio reporter George Weber was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn apartment.
- A senior Fatah official and three of his bodyguards were killed in an explosion as they left a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
- The much-anticipated baby of MIA and Benjamin Brewer has been named Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, not "Ikkit," as was originally reported. Gosh, get it right!