As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God (Times Online)
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it's Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there.

Prime minister fills 18 vacant Senate seats (CTV British Columbia)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed new senators, including CTV broadcaster Mike Duffy, former broadcaster Pamela Wallin and skier Nancy Greene Raine, to fill 18 vacancies in the Red Chamber.

Prime minister fills 18 vacant Senate seats (CTV Winnipeg)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed more senators Monday than had ever been appointed in a single day throughout Canadian history.

Beware of Groundhog Day (The New Statesman)
Barack Obama is a politician of a system described by Martin Luther King as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. He speaks of change but offers only dreaded continuity

Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw