RIP Michael Gambon
1) I was one of those kids. This is sad news.
Michael Gambon in his most famous TV role as mystery writer Philip Marlow in The Singing Detective. Photograph: ITV/Allstar
2) Turkey and Azerbaijan: Brothers in Arms.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were meeting Monday in Nakhchivan and were expected to push for a land connection between Nakhchivan and the rest of Azerbaijan.
3) Somewhere, Ted Kennedy is just saying, 'Look all I did was leave the car, and this guy gets to be President again?”
4) According to reports, a 15-year-old British girl was fatally stabbed on her way to school just moments after she rejected flowers from a boy.
The victim — who has not been named publicly — was on her way to school Wednesday morning when she was attacked on a major road in Croydon, South London, the BBC reported.
Chief Superintendent Andy Brittain confirmed that a 17-year-old suspect was in custody.
5) Warts and all, seriously, North Korea manages to frighten me more, WHY is this guy running a nation?
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an exponential increase in production of nuclear weapons and for his country to play a larger mole in a coalition of nations confronting the United States in a “new Cold War,” state media said Thursday.
