NEWS FROM SYRIA

• McCain raises prospect of military option in Syria
• France FM: Fall of Assad government in Syria ‘unavoidable’
• Arab League chief warns of ‘disastrous consequences’ if Syria deal fails
• Syria’s Assad warns of ‘earthquake’ if West intervenes

NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• Israel gets ready to unveil David’s Sling
• Israel test-fires missile as Iran debate rages
• Iran says united and ‘ready for war’ with Israel
• Iran cleric: Israel wouldn’t dare pursue its ‘foolish’ military threats
• Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran ‘a mistake’

THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

• Slippery slope: ‘loneliness,’ ‘fatigue’ now criteria for euthanasia in Netherlands

9-11

• Ahmadinejad: U.S. and allies threaten anyone who attacks Holocaust, 9/11
• Al-Qaeda slams Iran ‘conspiracy theories’

PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD

• ‘Israel is the West’s creation for Mideast dominance’
• Ahmadinejad: ‘Palestine will one day be liberated’
• Ahmadinejad: Mideast conflict can end if immigrant Jews ‘go home’

PSALM 121

• U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel increasingly isolated in Middle East
• Gantz: Israel must always be war-ready
• Lebanese Analyst Warns of Hezbollah’s Impending Strike on Israel
• Turkish PM: Israel Threat Because of Nuclear Weapons

TERRORIST THREAT

• Al Qaeda drone attacks on US? Soon it won’t be so far-fetched.
• Model plane bomb plot tests U.S. antiterrorism strategy at home

THE MIDDLE EAST TINDERBOX

• Assad Warns to Set Fire on Middle-East in Case of US Attack
• Syria clergyman threatens West with suicide attacks
• Iran Says Its New Cruise Missile Can ‘Sink Giant Warships’

KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

• Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk
• Scientists use cloning to make human stem cells

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

• Christian café owner warned by police over Bible verse display
• Condemned pastor won’t renounce faith
• Case of Iranian Pastor Facing Death Penalty Reportedly in Hands of Supreme Leader
• Girl’s school expulsion for blasphemy alarms British Pakistani Christians
• Coptic Church torched in Egypt
• Thousands of Egyptians march in Cairo’s Tahrir square for Copt’s funeral

NEWS FROM RUSSIA

• Putin to return as Russian president
• Russia’s Putin says wants to build “Eurasian Union”
• Analysts Say Medvedev-Putin Job Swap No Surprise
• Russia Condemns U.S. Missile Defense Deal, Warns of New Era of Cold War

Plagues and Pestilences

• Dangerous TB spreading at alarming rate in Europe
• Somalia famine: UN warns of 750,000 deaths