7 March 2011: Morning

  • Gadhafi compares struggle to oppress rebels to Israel's war against Hamas.
  • Ground reporting from Libyan rebels' attacks around Ras Lanuf.
  • Musicians face calls to surrender fees earned from performing for Gadhafi's family.
  • Dictators learn how to manipulate Facebook and arrest rebels for their "likes."
  • Video: King Philip IV signs autographs next to portrait in the Met.
  • Manning's quip about killing himself with flip-flops may have caused his being required to sleep naked.
  • Duke of York to be given smaller role after being spotted with underage girls and Tunisian baddies.
  • Japanese Foreign Minister resigns over receiving donations from a foreigner--Korean schoolmate living in Japan her whole life.
  • On Galliano: "His was not a generic anti-Semitic tirade, but the self-conscious pronouncement of a world-class arbiter of taste."
  • Military forced to get creative in waning days of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
  • February's unemployment rate was below 9% for first time in two years.
  • Eight percent of scholarship football players have a criminal record, including a quarter of Pitt's scholarship roster.
  • Profile: Billionaire octagenarian, who relies on eating plants for good health, busy planning his 125th birthday.
  • Talk therapy going the way of phonographs as insurance refuse to cover more than medications.
  • Unlike cats at night, not all squirrels are gray. Scientific quotes taken out of context.
  • Butter, once the inspiration for rebellion, is now a endlessly imitated condiment.
  • Definitive comparison of apple to oranges; how to make Peeps sushi.