PS3 sales pass Xbox 360 a week after price drop
Playstation 3 sales passed the Xbox 360 last week, largely due to it’s $100 price cut and strong showing at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Wave of Homicide Bombings Leave 51 Dead Across Pakistan
Homicide bombers hit a convoy of Chinese workers in southern Pakistan and a police academy and an army camp in the northwest, killing at least 51 people in the latest violence in the week since the army stormed a mosque held by Islamic extremists.

Scientists Find Genetic Link for a Disorder (Next, Respect?)
Imagine you keep waking up with a fierce urge to move your legs, each time further eroding your sleep quota and your partner’s patience. You have restless legs syndrome, a quaintly named disorder whose sufferers may get more respect now that its genetic basis has been identified.

Debate on Child Pornography’s Link to Molesting
Experts have often wondered what proportion of men who download explicit sexual images of children also molest them. A new government study of convicted Internet offenders suggests that the number may be startlingly high: 85 percent of the offenders said they had committed acts of sexual abuse against minors, from inappropriate touching to rape.

The Note: Iraq Hangover
Bleary-eyed Democrats Pass Nothing, but Republicans Should be Scared of What’s Next

California Mom Accused in Gang Murder
Mothers have lied, spun elaborate alibis and hidden evidence for their gang-member sons. But investigators say Eva Daley went to murderous lengths.

Japan closes nuclear plant damaged by earthquake
The Japanese authorities on Tuesday shut down a nuclear power plant after a radiation leak and other damage from an earthquake in the nation’s northwest raised new concerns about the safety of Japan’s nuclear industry.

Dollar Falls Against Major Currencies
Dollar Falls Against Euro, Pound As Housing and Economic Concerns Pressure Currency

Nuclear Secrets Allegedly Stolen From Tenn. Lab
Investigators are calling the theft a serious breach of security at one of the country’s most important nuclear research labs. Officials said there was serious concern the documents could have fallen into the hands of enemy states or even terrorist organizations.

Flesh-eating bacteria put man’s life at risk
A Nacogdoches man who was infected by flesh-eating bacteria while swimming off Galveston County’s Crystal Beach still faces the threat of losing a leg — and possibly his life — despite three surgeries.

Duke: iPhone May Be Disrupting Network
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.

Slumber Party in the Senate?
In the dead of night, the Senate apparently turns into something other than the oft-cited greatest deliberative body in the world.
It becomes a “circus, a “mockery,” “Kabuki theater,” a “carnival” and a “charade,” Democrats have said. Not only that, but “a colossal waste of time.” And given the increasingly geriatric nature of the chamber as a whole, the Senate in all-night session amounts to “elder abuse.”