6 January 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Chinese aviation enthusiasts "discover" new stealth jet days before U.S. Secretary of Defense arrives in Beijing.
Spilt coffee leads to false hijacking alert, angry Turk leads to real alert.
Dead birds falling from the sky and fish washing ashore have people puzzling over "aflockalypse."
Cop suspected of killing prominent secular politician in Pakistan showered with rose petals by Islamist lawyers.
Swaziland has been preparing its men for mass circumcision since 2006.
Chile and Paraguay to recognize Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
Data shows global warming, "the greatest story rarely told," is deep inside the freezer of public consciousness.
Patton Oswalt: Pop culture has become a ceaseless recut spoof, therefore we must destroy it.
Video: The 10 Most Wonderful Internet Films of 2010.
I dine out and have to talk about everything, to everybody. Charles Dickens and John Lennon lamenting public attention.
Long read: The black and white of mayoral politics in New Orleans, and a chance for racial progress.
Accounting for today's pornography, where Jenna Jameson has been supplanted by "a pale, naughty, 19-year-old and her Mac."
Webbish people profiled on the matter of life (online, in social media) and death.
Post-Christmas, e-book versions of the top six books outsold their print counterparts.
Sixty years of anecdotes from golfers and reporters on the tour.
Op: He lost his head, but Cromwell's charisma and ethics made him a great leader.
Journey with London's head sewer flusher to hunt and destroy "fatbergs" (see video).
I will shadow your side every hour of the day. When a new baby arrives, so does the mother-in-law.
