* At a military funeral, comrades talk about proper preparation of last wills and testaments. * Reporter war-games an Israeli strike on Iran and things get ugly. * Six million people die each year from smoking—more than from AIDS, malaria, and traffic accidents combined. * Soon China will be where manufacturers look
* Rate of increase in new HIV cases in Greece predicted to rise to 60 percent by the end of 2011. * Dallas Symphony, going Euro, to be bankrupt within 90 days. * France demands to know why S&P sent out an (erroneous) email downgrading its credit rating. * Romans spontaneously cheer
* Syria suspended from Arab League and sanctioned, but international intervention is unlikely. * While Italian and Greek PMs have resigned, French politics could be transformed. * Director of French state energy company jailed for three years for spying on Greenpeace's anti-nuclear campaign. * In wider French hacking trial, cyclist Landis
* One in eight veterans is unemployed; nine in 10 vets who served recently have been thanked for their service. * Veteran's Day Poem: "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa. * For 11/11/11, 11 songs to turn to 11. * Fifty photos that brought home the war. * Official posters
* Italian senate adopts austerity package, preparing for Berlusconi's resignation. * Number of American catfish and goats to be unknown this year. * Little-known facts about America's nuclear arsenal—e.g., we're spending more than we did during the Cold War. * A vote for Putin is
* Former European Central Bank vice-president named as Greece's new prime minister. * Daniel Radosh gets wish: Bill Keane, "Family Circus" cartoonist, now dead. * Fake passport made for Adolf Hitler by the Special Operations Executive. * Teenagers dressed as angels visit crime scenes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico'
The view from California.
* Notes written by Berlusconi while he lost his majority in Italy's parliament. * Chávez to host "cancer summit" for other South American leaders who have been treated for cancer. * Palestinian bid for UN membership headed for certain failure. * Penn State trustees fire school's president and
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* Italy’s borrowing costs cross key threshold, near levels that have forced others to seek bailouts. * Greece's Papandreou to step down today; successor not yet named. * Timeline of warnings since 1979 that Iran will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability. * Criminal charges are possible for Penn
