News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Woodruff, Cameraman Taken to Hospital in Germany
Blair resolute as 100th UK soldier dies in Iraq
US says will not give in to Carroll's kidnappers - Video
Hidden Bombs Biggest Fear of GIs in Iraq
Iraqi Authorities Go on Bird-Flu Alert,
Iraqis think U.S. won't leave, poll finds
New Hussein judge sets strict tone
More money needed to rebuild, report says

Operation Enduring Freedom
Envoys Vow to Maintain Afghan Support
Afghan province's problems underline challenge for U.S
Two bombs defused near the US Embassy

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Zawahiri Mocks Bush
Quartet to Hamas: Renounce Violence or Lose Financial Aid- Video: Aid Request
Palestinians Appeal for Continued Aid
Official Says Hamas Won't Be 'Blackmailed'
Technology proves ineffective at foiling tunnels under U.S.-Mexico border
Heavyweights tell Hamas to change

Military News
National Guard recruiting soars

Supreme Court
U.S. Senate set to confirm Alito to Supreme Court

Politics
Bush to Make Broad Appeals in State of the Union Address
Bush to Talk Fuel Saving- Video: Finishing Touches

Oddities
The Three Stooges live!
There's venom in denim...
Rare allergy to cold keeps woman inside
Raging bull attacks spectators
Trip over shoelace dooms 3-century-old Chinese vases

Other News of Note
Coretta Scott King Dies - Widow of MLK Jr. dies at 78
Aide: Reagan Left Marines Vulnerable in Beirut

Fox News
Illinois Plane Crash Kills Four
Black History Museum Will be Built on National Mall
Enron Jury Selected
Dominatrix Acquitted in Death
Exxon Posts Record Profit
Dozens Seek to Adopt Baby Found in Brazilian Lake

Reuters: Top News
Iran says recourse to UN kills nuclear diplomacy
Enron trial set for opening arguments - Video
Global warming demands urgent solutions: scientists
Key bone marrow cells hide at edges: study
Israel holds couple in corporate espionage case
Microsoft starts selling technology to start-ups
Latest US deaths prompt more mine safety calls
Mother's milk enlisted in South Africa AIDS fight
Roche's Tamiflu gets EU nod for children
Japan farm minister says won't step down over beef
Enron trial set for opening arguments
Changes at the Fed
Stepping into history
Wall St sees steady hand at Fed under Bernanke
Fact Box: Toward transparency at the Fed
Merck profit rises slightly, hurt by charge
Altria 4th-quarter profit up, sees 2006 decline
OPEC confirms deal to retain high output
Kellogg 4th-quarter earnings rise
Ericsson Q4 a record, but outlook seen mixed
Knight Ridder profit falls, advertising sluggish
Iomai cuts IPO to 5 million shares at $7-$9 each
Weisel faces delicate dance in pricing own IPO
Goodyear falls; Napster, Sepracor up
Stock futures flat before Fed rate decision
SCA Q4 profits surprise, shares leap
Sepracor shares jump on Inet
U.S. chain store sales dropped last week: ICSC

AP World News
Putin Touts Russia's Missile Capabilities
North Korea Renews Commitment to Talks
Pakistan, India to Restart Train Service
Chile's President-Elect Unveils Cabinet
'Textbook' Rescue Saves 72 Canadian Miners
Iran Begins Natural Gas Exports to Georgia
Vienna to Host Holocaust Research Center
Possible Miracle Tied to Pope John Paul II

The Seattle Times
Americans' savings rate lowest since Depression
Networks expect to see larger audience for State of the Union address
Utah townsfolk speak up for Bush
EPA, factory-style farms make deal on pollution
Nearly 8 million babies are born with genetic defects yearly, study finds
Paralysis therapy offers new hope
As world awaits big game, Detroit polishes new image
"CSI" provides killers with how-to guide
Russia, China join U.N. effort on Iran
Quake refugees like camps
3 fatally shot, 1 hurt at postal station

Chicago Sun-Times
Daley: Cameras will make us safer
Diplomats: Iran hands documents to IAEA
Barenboim leaves Berlin hospital
African slave remains found in 16th-century grave
'Baby Jessica,' now 19, marries 32-year-old man
Wisconsin county cheers for Steelers
Bounty hunter becomes the hunted

Boston Globe: World
UN council sets Iran nuclear review

CENTCOM: News Releases
MND-B SOLDIERS DETAIN KIDNAP CELL LEADER, 3 OTHERS

Military.com
US Prepares for Long Terror War
Kidnapped Reporter Makes Plea
National Guard Reports Recruiting Gains
Military Health System Transforms
QDR Speeds Navy Programs

Department of Defense
Bush: Iran Cannot Gain Nuclear Weapons - Story
Transformed Care for Wounded Saves Lives - Story
Military Health Transformation Will Improve Care
Blast South of Baghdad Kills 10 Civilians - Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Troops, U.S. Marines Finish Koa Canyon - Story

IN IRAQ
Video: Humanitarian Mission to Village of Agar Goof
Marine 'Banshees' Wrap Up Iraq Deployment
U.S., Iraqis Clean Up Neighborhood for Hajj

IN AFGHANISTAN
New Hospital Symbolizes Afghan Progress

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Italian Pilot Deploys With U.S. Forces

FACE OF DEFENSE
Service Gives Airman Wings to Fly - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Employers Support La. Reservists - Story
Leaders Thanked for Troop Support
Fund Helps Military Families

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
News Crew Injured in IED Attack
Iraqi, U.S. Troops Engage Terrorists
Two Soldiers, One Marine Killed
Villagers Dedicate New Water Pump
Iraqi Insurgents Battle Al Qaeda
Casey: Many Opportunities Ahead
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (pdf)
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
New Democracies Help Each Other
More Ways to Counter WMD Sought
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualty - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
0314 - St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0876 - Charles becomes king of Italy
1504 - By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
1531 - Kings Ferdinand of Austria/János Zápolyai of Hungary accept each other
1578 - Battle of Gembloers
1627 - Spanish government goes bankrupt
1675 - Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
1779 - Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
1804 - British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reaches Curaçao
strong>1849 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1851 - Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
1861 - State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
1862 - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
1863 - 1st Black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1871 - Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky
1874 - Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, MO
1895 - José Martí & others leave New York City, NY for invasion of Spanish Cuba
1901 - Boer General John Smuts & De la Rey conquer Mud river, Transvaal
1905 - 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach; Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
1915 - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1917 - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships
1925 - Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania
1927 - International allies military command in Germany disbands
1928 - Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
1929 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
1930 - 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst New Jersey
1933 - French government of Daladier takes power; Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
1934 - FDR devalues the dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1936 - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1940 - 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
1941 - 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton); Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
1942 - 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
1943 - 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton); Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan; General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
1944 - Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June; U-592 sunk off Ireland; US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
1945 - Eddie Slovik executed for desertion - 1st American since Civil War; US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
1946 - Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
1948 - Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
1949 - 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
1950 - President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb
1952 - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries; Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1953 - Princess Victoria capsizes off Stanraer Scotland, killing 133; Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000
1955 - RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1956 - French government of Mollet forms; Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil
1957 - Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt; US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
1961 - Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2; USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights; David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel; NATO secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
1962 - Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort USS Falgout
1962 - General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1964 - US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
1966 - USSR launches Luna 9 toward the Moon
1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins; Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
1969 - Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1971 - Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands; Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey & Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1972 - Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana; US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998); Birenda becomes leader of Nepal
1977 - Frenchman François Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad; Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1978 - Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
1980 - Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
1982 - 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
1985 - South African President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
1986 - Mary Lund of Minnesota, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
1988 - Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1990 - 1st McDonald's in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonald's
1992 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands

Birthdays
1607 - James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
1612 - Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia
1620 - Georg F. von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief
1734 - Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Gerrit J. Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06)
1778 - Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premier of Bohemia (1848)
1802 - Jan C.J. van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
1810 - Daniel Ruggles, Confederate Brigadier General
1812 - John Randolph Tucker, Confederate Navy Captain
1818 - William Raine Peck, Confederate Brigadier General
1830 - James Gillespie Blaine West, (Representative-R-ME 1863-76/Senator-R-ME 1876-81/Secretary of State 1889-92)
1866 - Henry Forster cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Australian Governor-General)
1868 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
1869 - Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier (1920-21)
1872 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border)
1909 - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1916 - Ciro D. Crown, Premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69)
1919 - Jackie Robinson, 1st Black major league baseball player (Dodgers)
1920 - Stewart L. Udall, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
1922 - Michael Wilford, diplomat
1924 - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1925 - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1925 - Fred Catherwood, MP
1929 - Rudolf Mossbauer, German physicist (Nobel 1961)
1931 - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
1933 - Joseph D. Early (Representative-MA, 1975-1992); Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP (CDA)
1938 - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands; James G. Watt, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)
1941 - George S Mickelson (Governor-SD); Richard A. Gephardt (Representative-MO, 1977-2005)
1944 - Eugene Terre Blanche, South African leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1951 - Presiley Baxendale, British QC
1956 - Trevor A. Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader

Passings
1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35
1788 - [Bonnie Prince] Charles E. Stuart, English pretender, dies at 67
1828 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
1864 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/Governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1945 - Eddie Slovik, 1st US soldier executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1954 - Edwin H. Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1972 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51
1973 - Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91
1995 - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950-83), dies at 86

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Hamilton, Eugene David, USAF (AL); F105D shot down, presumed KIA

1967
The following USAF personnel reported MIA when their UC123B was shot down:

Barden, Howard L. (OH)

Kubley, Roy R. (WI)

Miyazaki, Ronald K. (HI); flight mechanic

Mulhauser, Harvey (VA)

Walker, Lloyd F. (OH); pilot

Also reported MIA this day in 1967:
Bullock, Larry A., US Army (KY); drowned, body not recovered

1968
Badua, Candido C., Civilian (Phillipines); Voice of America employee - released March, 1973

Cocheo, Richard N., Civilian; Pacific Architects and Engineers employee - taken from his house in Yinh Long (his wife was killed)

Kjome, Michael, Civilian; Pacific Architects and Engineers employee - released by PRG February, 1973 (injured) - deceased as of 1986

Lacey, Richard J., US Army (PA); disappeared from Jeep - Soldier he was with found deceased

Young, John A., US Army (IL); released by PRG March, 1973 - member of Peace Commiittee accused collaboration

1971
Cartwright, Patrick G., USN (NV); possibly fell overboard during shift