I.M.F. Chief, Apprehended at Airport, Is Accused of Sexual Attack  —  The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday …

Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid  —  Mike Huckabee said Saturday there would be no sequel to his surprisingly strong 2008 White House bid, in which he won the Iowa Republican caucus and finished second in the primaries to Sen. John McCain.  —  “All the factors say go …

New York Post, With Classy Cover, Lists Bin Laden Porn Titles  —  The New York Post has clearly done its homework to come up with the titles of the DVD's Osama bin Laden enjoyed at his compound.  As part of an article titled “Porno Osama Had A Big ‘Jihad On’” his favorites were revealed.  Among them:

Converting Mamet  —  A playwright's progress  —  Three decades ago David Mamet became known among the culture-consuming public for writing plays with lots of dirty words.  “You're f—ing f—ed” was a typically Mamet-like line, appearing without the prim dashes back in a day when playwrights …

An Ill Season  —  Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend.  They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex …

Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban  —  Osama bin Laden received visits from Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters while he was hiding out in a fortified compound in a Pakistani garrison town, it has emerged.  —  A still from a bin Laden video released by the US Department of Defense.

Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater's Founder  —  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital.  Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer …

An Evening On The Beltway Yuengling and Minor Assault Circuit  —  So . . . I was walking back from the home of Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman and instead of doing the normal thing and taking Q Street west to 5th and then walking south, I wanted to take a shortcut by walking south on North Capitol to then cut southwest on New York.

Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling  —  The broad energy plan, coming as gas prices continue to rise, would also fast-track environmental assessment of petroleum exploration elsewhere.  —  Reporting from Washington— President Obama will open Alaska's national petroleum reserve …

Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’  —  MACON, Ga. — Newt Gingrich opened his presidential campaign here Friday night by introducing a jobs plan that would slash taxes and repeal an array of bureaucratic regulations.  —  Returning to the state where he launched …