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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has been in the news a lot lately. Despite that fact, the Financial Times spelled his last name Murdock.

Germany is investigating whether blueprints for the new headquarters of the country's intelligence agency, the BND, have gone missing. The building's under construction in Berlin. According to Germany's Focus magazine, the missing blueprints detail the alarm system, emergency exits and anti-terror installations.

In Afghanistan, the half-brother of President Hamid Karzai was assassinated at his home in the southern part of the country, in the city of Kandahar Tuesday. Ahmed Wali Karzai was repeatedly accused of corruption and of having links to drug trafficking, yet the Afghan president continued to defend him.

Police have told Prince Charles and his wife Camilla that the voicemail on their mobile phones was likely hacked by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. And former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says his family's medical records were illegally obtained by another Murdoch tabloid. This all spells big trouble for the planned big expansion of Murdoch's News Corp. television holdings.

In three weeks, the country risks defaulting on its bills. Republican leaders have dug in their heels against any deficit reduction that entails increased tax revenues.