This has been going on for a couple of days:

VATICAN CITY (AP) - One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler - arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home - agreeing to cooperate with investigators, his lawyer said Monday. Paolo Gabriele's pledge to cooperate with Vatican magistrates raises the specter that high-ranking prelates may soon be named in the investigation into leaks of confidential Vatican correspondence that have shed a light on power struggles and intrigue inside the highest levels of the Catholic Church.

And this must also be affecting the UK, Germany, etc.:

merica's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related. That is more than double the estimate of 21 percent who filed such claims after the Gulf War in the early 1990s, top government officials told The Associated Press.

There are also the elections in Egypt, an explosion in Nairobi, and a lot of other news that has been going on over the last couple or days -- or week. But we continue in the BS section rehashing old stuff, like "US and Gun Laws."

Is there nothing else going on the world worth commenting on except US-bashing, Internet rumors, and things reheated hash?

Geez, if it wasn't for Froggie and a few other things this place would remind me of an bunch of old fogies bitching about the world while whittling around the stove at the general store!