Fact x Importance = News (Dec 1)

Mumbai has dominated the news, but what other stories have we been reading?:

• 'Al-Qaeda' has switched its focus from Iraq to Pakistan.


• Some al-Qaeda supporters are unhappy with the international media's pro-Obama bias.


• Vladimir Putin may be considering a return to the presidency.


• Meanwhile Russian warships have been deployed to the Caribbean for the first time since the end of the Cold War, as guests of Venezuela.


• And a Russian investigator claims that Georgia employed foreign female mercenary snipers during last summer's conflict.


• Fewer than 1% of airline passengers singled out by TSA screeners for suspicious behaviour are arrested.