Headlines

Here's a few headlines for your pleasure:

# Jamaica police: 30 dead in battle with drug gang (AP) "- 1 hour ago"

AP - Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital's most violent slums on Tuesday, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the United Stat...
# NKorea severs all ties with rival SKorea (AP) "- 3 hours ago"AP - North Korea declared Tuesday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming the North for the sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.
# Thailand charges ex-PM Thaksin with terrorism (AP) "- 1 hour ago"AP - Thai authorities accused ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of terrorism Tuesday, issuing an arrest warrant on charges that carry a possible death sentence for his alleged role in deadly st...
# Divers explore sunken ruins of Cleopatra's palace (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over heaps of limestone blocks hammered in...
# Iraq blames al-Qaida in gold robbery that kills 15 (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - Masked men armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles shot up a jewelry market in Baghdad Tuesday, killing 15 people before they fled with a large quantity of gold in an attack autho...
# U.K.'s New Parliament Opens with Promises of Radical Reform (Time.com) "- 3 hours ago"Time.com - With the opening of its first session on Tuesday, Britain's new parliament proposed wide-ranging reforms meant to restore the public's faith in government. But the elaborate and symbolic ce...
# German ex-soldiers to work in Somalia (AP) "- 1 hour ago"AP - A private security company's plan to deploy more than 100 German ex-soldiers to Somalia to work for a warlord has triggered intense media coverage and drew harsh criticism from lawmakers Tuesday,...
# Yemen airstrike on al-Qaida hide-out, clash kill 6 (AP) "- "


Stocks drop after euro slumps, Dow falls below 10K (AP) "- 1 hour ago"


# BP internal probe focuses on other companies' work (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - Oil giant BP said its internal investigation of the unchecked Gulf oil spill is largely focused on work done by other companies as a new government report Tuesday showed workers at the federal ag...
# Jamaica police: 30 dead in battle with drug gang (AP) "- 1 hour ago"AP - Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital's most violent slums on Tuesday, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the United Stat...
# Ex-Detroit mayor gets up to 5 years in prison (AP) "- 1 hour ago"AP - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday for violating the terms of his probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affai...
# Gates agrees to proposal to repeal gay ban (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday gave lukewarm support to a new White House-backed plan for a vote in Congress to immediately repeal the law that bans gays from serving openly in the mil...
# APNewsBreak: Owner of chimp in Conn. attack dies (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - A Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend last year has died, her attorney said Tuesday.
# Space shuttle Atlantis on last leg of last mission (AP) "- 2 hours ago"AP - Atlantis' homeward-bound astronauts paid tribute Tuesday to their space shuttle, close to winding up its final journey after a quarter-century of flight.
# Bret Michaels says he's going back on the road (AP) "- 7 hours ago"AP - Bret Michaels is upbeat, despite his recent illnesses.
# Michigan details football woes to NCAA (AP) "- 3 hours ago"


WHO IS Bret Michaels that he rates a headline next to "Euro slumps, Dow falls, etc., etc.

I also like the fact BP's "investigation" is focused on "other companies work". Is this an attempt to find out what happened? Is it an attempt to lay blame?

Take a guess.