27 September 2007: Morning

  • Up to eight people killed in Myanmar, many more beaten and arrested as security forces raid monasteries.
  • Op: If China won't change its policies toward Burma on its own, it must be pressured to do so.
  • Dinner with Ahmadinejad: The movie 300 was a "complete distortion of Iranian history;" Iran, he says, has never invaded anyone in its history.
  • TMN's Liz Entman to Columbia U. president: You're rude, pal.
  • New York has the highest carriage-horse accident rate in the country. Call to ban Central Park's horse-drawn carriages gains traction.
  • Debating violence and misogyny in rap lyrics in front of Congress, Master P apologizes to women; David Banner says, "I'm like Stephen King: horror music is what I do."
  • Of vice and men: Tubby, smoking Hitchens begins getting facials.
  • Explaining the science behind why people don't evolve in one lifetime: because it could kill us.
  • Where the presidential candidates stand on climate change.
  • Head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique says some European-made condoms are deliberately infected with HIV.
  • Team of male psychologists finds geniuses are mostly men, but there are far more stupid men than women.
  • Billboard ads with a naked anorexic woman arrive just in time for Milan's fashion week.
  • There is such a thing as poverty in human relations. Profiles of Japan's homeless internet-cafe dwellers.
  • Expect 190 million hands worldwide to be holding Wi-Fi/cellular phones by 2011.
  • Scam reporter gets duped by deluxe-headphones con.
  • Complicated math to keep track of your eating-out by adding extra cents to your credit card bill.