The relatively new publisher of the Washington Post, Katherine Weymouth, is an attorney who worked for the company for 12 years, and got her education at the Harvard School of Business, so supposedly, she's hardly a naif in running a business.

Yet, she has never been employed to work inside a newsroom, a gap in her resume that may have contributed to her current difficulties.

In a stunning development, Martin Luther Agwai, a UNAMID force commander based in Darfur, Sudan, was asked to step down from his prestigious position at the United Nations, two days after the Texas Republic News posted a story about his wife, Ruth Agwai, on June 15, 2009, according to sources knowledgeable on behind-the-scenes activities of the UN. His wife works as an unlicensed nurse for Medical Services at an occupational health clinic inside the UN headquarters building in New York City.

The Texas Republic News revealed that Mrs. Agwai lived in a multi-million dollar town home in Manhattan, "never legally obtained a registered nursing license in her country of origen," received financial payments from ECOSOC, an agency which distributes financial and material aid to Third World nations, and billed an excessive expense account to the UN to pay for first class travel accomodations when she attended a 'World's AIDS Day' conference in Lagos, Nigeria on November 27, 2007.

The director of Venezula's telecommunications regulatory agency announced that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked over failure to update their registration with the government.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, "a total of 86 AM radio stations and 154 FM radio stations have failed to turn in required documents which will lead to the 'recovery of all those concessions by the state,' said Diosdado Cabelo, who heads the telecommunications agency."

China has requested to debate proposals for a new global reserve currency during next week's Group of Eight summit in Italy and the topic could be referred to briefly in the summit statement, G8 sources revealed on Sunday.

Reuters reports that, "an G8 source who was involved in the negotiations said China made the request during preparatory talks about a joint statement to be issued on the second day of the summit in L'Aquilla by the G8 plus the G5 (Brazil, India, china, Mexico and South Africa) and Egypt.

A court in Delhi, the Indian capital, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults should not be deemed a criminal act.

According to the BBC News, "the ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an 'unnatural offense.'"

On Thursday, North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles, the Defense Ministry of South Korea said, which aggravates the already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear teast, and U.N. sanctions imposed to punish the rogue regime.

Fox News reports that, "the misiles were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan on Thursday afternoon, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity citing department policy. He did not say what types of missiles were launched, but Yonhap news agency said they were ground-to-ship missiles."

Tiong Hiew King, the founder of the behemoth Asian logging conglomerate Rimbunan Hijau, a corporation accused of systematically stripping the "paradise" forests of Indonesia, Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

the Guardian Unlimited UK reports that, "environment groups around the world have called for a billionaire businessman to be stripped of his knighthood after claiming that his fortune has been built on the systematic destruction of tropical rainforests."

On Wednesday, a senior Palestinian Muslim cleric encouraged Muslims to visit Jerusalem, which breaks a tabboo against visiting the holy city since it would be perceived as normalizing relations with Israel.

According to the Jerusalem Post, "speaking at a press conference in Cairo, Sheikh Tayseer al-Timimi said Muslims should travel to Jerusalem and perform a pilgrimage to Muslim holy places in the disputed city, backtracking on an earlier edict."

On Tuesday, the regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed that the deposed president permitted tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American nations on its way to the United States of America.

Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez told CNN en Espanol that, "every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking. We have proof of all this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it."

Achievements on the front lines of a government blitzkrieg on gunrunners supplying Texas weaponry to Mexican drug cartels depends on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have been sent to Houston from around the nation. ATF acting director Kenneth Melson needs them to follow what he described as a "massive number of investigative leads."

According to the Houston Chronicle, "all told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizon. Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings, and other crimes in Mexico."