Reuters admits altering Beirut photo  —  Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation'  —  A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs.

Hezbollah Rocket Kills 12 in Deadliest Blow to Israel  —  A Hezbollah rocket killed 12 Israeli soldiers today in the deadliest single blow to Israel in nearly a month of fighting, while Israel again pounded Lebanon with airstrikes, killing at least 16 people in another intense …

Conn. Race Could Be Democratic Watershed  —  Loss by Lieberman May Embolden Critics of War  —  The passion and energy fueling the antiwar challenge to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in Connecticut's Senate primary signal a power shift inside the Democratic Party that could reshape the politics …

Advocates of 'proportion' are just unbalanced  —  "Disproportion" is the concept of the moment.  Do you know how to play?  Let's say 150 missiles are lobbed at northern Israel from the Lebanese village of Qana and the Israelis respond with missiles of their own that kill 28 people.

Exclusive: Iraq-Plans in Case of a Civil War  —  A Nation Divided: An Iraqi man is injured in a car bomb explosion  —  The Bush administration insists Iraq is a long way from civil war, but the contingency planning has already begun inside the White House and the Pentagon.

Al-Qaida's No. 2 welcomes Egyptian group  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.  —  It was the first time that al-Qaida has announced a branch in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation.

Classified intelligence bills often are unread  —  Secret process can discourage House debate  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly all members of the House of Representatives opted out of a chance to read this year's classified intelligence bill, and then voted on secret provisions they knew almost nothing about.

One Ring to Rule Them  —  The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense.  Why bomb roads, roads, bridges, ports, fuel depots in Sunni and Christian areas that have nothing to do with Shiite Hizbullah in the deep south?

Creation Museum puts biblical spin on Earth's history  —  PETERSBURG, Ky. - Steve McConaughy gets goose bumps when he tells people about the Creation Museum.  —  The $26.4-million facility will not open until spring, but the air-traffic controller from Toledo already has made nine pilgrimages to the suburban Cincinnati site.

First Look at Draft UN Security Council Resolution on Hezbollah Situation  —  We've obtained a draft copy of the UN Security Council Resolution brokered by the U.S. and French sides on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon.  On balance, it sits well with us.  Now we wait to see what the full Council does with it this week.

Pondering, Discussing, Traveling Amid and Defending the Inevitable War  —  When I arrived in Israel, it was the anniversary of the day the Spanish Civil War began.  It was 70 years ago that the Spanish generals set off the war — civil, ideological and international — that the fascist governments of the time wanted.

Gingrich: There Is An 'Insurgency' in CT Which Says 'Can't We Come Home And Hide?'  —  This morning on Fox News, Newt Gingrich claimed there is a "legitimate insurgency in Connecticut, which needs to be met head on," made up of people who say Iraq "is so hard, it is so frightening, it's so painful, can't we come home and hide?"

Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target  —  Evidence shows increase in number of executions as homosexuals plead for asylum in Britain  —  Hardline Islamic insurgent groups in Iraq are targeting a new type of victim with the full protection of Iraqi law, The Observer can reveal.