Top Story –
Bad lip syncing –
Two Chinese pop singers face fines of up to $12,000 (£7,400) for allegedly miming at a concert. Miming was banned in China after a girl was revealed to have lip-synced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

Top Video –
Birds on the Wires

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Top List –

Locations of the Summer Olympic Games
1896 – Athens, Greece
1900 – Paris, France
1904 – St. Louis, United States
1908 – London, United Kingdom
1912 – Stockholm, Sweden
1916 – Scheduled for Berlin, Germany*
1920 – Antwerp, Belgium
1924 – Paris, France
1928 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1932 – Los Angeles, United States
1936 – Berlin, Germany
1940 – Scheduled for Tokyo, Japan*
1944 – Scheduled for London, United Kingdom*
1948 – London, United Kingdom
1952 – Helsinki, Finland
1956 – Melbourne, Australia
1960 – Rome, Italy
1964 – Tokyo, Japan
1968 – Mexico City, Mexico
1972 – Munich, West Germany (now Germany)
1976 – Montreal, Canada
1980 – Moscow, U.S.S.R. (now Russia)
1984 – Los Angeles, United States
1988 – Seoul, South Korea
1992 – Barcelona, Spain
1996 – Atlanta, United States
2000 – Sydney, Australia
2004 – Athens, Greece
2008 – Beijing, China

* Due to World War I and II, Summer Olympic Games were not held in 1916, 1940, and 1944.

Top News –

• Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
  • The Haitian government declares earthquake rescue operations over. (BBC)
  • The government announces a first precise death toll of 111,481. To date, it is the second-deadliest earthquake of the21st century (after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake). (CNN)
• Joe Biden‘s visit to Iraq:
  • U.S. Vice President Joe Biden holds talks with Iraqi political leaders ahead of the March parliamentary election.(BBC)
  • Biden says the U.S. government will appeal in the Blackwater Baghdad shootings case. (BBC)
• Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Venezuela for and against the polices of President Hugo Chávez amid a currency revaluation and energy shortages in the country. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• Eight people are killed and 13 missing after flash floods and landslides hit Sulawesi, Indonesia. (News Australia)(Jerusalem Post)
• Between 100 and 150 bodies are found stuffed in wells in the village of Kuru following religious clashes in Jos, Nigeria.(BBC) (AFP)
• A passenger train in Iran derails, killing at least eight people and wounding at least fifteen others. (Press TV) (ISNA)(Reuters) (RTÉ) (The Canadian Press)
• Japanese prosecutors question Representative Ichirō Ozawa over an alleged party funding scandal. (BBC) (Manilla Bulletin)
• The American Civil Liberties Union condemns a U.S. Justice Department report that suggested 47 Guantánamo Baydetainees should be held indefinitely without trial. (BBC)
• Jim McCormick, the director of the U.K. company manufacturing the controversial ADE 651 bomb detectors, is arrested on suspicion of fraud. (BBC)
• A new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey says Venezuela may hold double the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.(BBC)
• Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Cambodia on the eve of anti-government protests in Thailand.(The Phnom Penn Post)
• A strong weather system leaves damage in the U.S. states of California and Arizona after producing flooding rains, strong winds, and a rare outbreak of tornadoes in the region. (Los Angeles Times) (San Francisco Chronicle) (ABC News)
• Canadians take to the streets to protest the prorogation of the 40th Canadian Parliament. (CBC) (Globe and Mail)

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