Microsoft Launches Xbox 360 in Japan
AP via Newsday - TOKYO — Microsoft Corp.

Amazon nun’s killers are jailed
BBC - Landless peasants celebrated justice for Dorothy Stang Two Brazilians have been found guilty of murdering a US-born Catholic nun and peasants’ rights activist, and sentenced to long jail terms.

Iraq Hostages’ Kin Wait As Deadline Passes
ABCNEWS.com - By ROB GILLIES The Associated Press TORONTO - Family and friends of Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq waited with mounting concern Saturday as a deadline to kill them passed without word from the kidnappers.

Richard Pryor, Iconoclastic Comedian, Dies at 65
New York Times - Richard Pryor, the iconoclastic standup comedian who brought the biting, irreverent humor of the black ghetto into mainstream America’s living rooms, movie houses, clubs and concert halls, died Saturday. He was 65.

Hostage families in anxious wait
BBC - Norman Kember’s kidnappers have claimed he was a spy Relatives of Briton Norman Kember and three other hostages in Iraq await news of their fate after the deadline set by their captors to kill them passed.

The Bear Who Was There at the Start of It All
New York Times - IN a courtroom scene from ‘The Simpsons’ that has since entered into the television canon, an argument over the ownership of the animated characters Itchy and Scratchy rapidly escalates into an existential debate on the very nature of cartoons. ‘

Creator of skateboarding move suing for $20 million
10 News - MIAMI, Florida (AP) — The creator of an aerial skateboarding move known as ollie is suing several companies, including Disney and Sega, over the use of the word. Alan ‘Ollie’ Gelfand says the companies infringed on trademarking rights.

Al-Zawahri, in old tape, calls for attacks
Chicago Sun-Times - The posting was a full version of a video by al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri that was issued on Sept. 19, excerpts of which were broadcast by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera at the time.

Bikes had defective design, expert says
San Francisco Chronicle - Robert Neil Anderson, professor emeritus of materials engineering at San Jose State University, said he examined several bicycles imported by Dynacraft BSC Inc. of San Rafael and sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,