Around the World Monday (Evening)

French riot police clash with students as petrol stations run dry 

Despite claims that it had petrol provision “under control”, the government said it had activated an emergency crisis cell charged with maintaining fuel supplies.

The opposition Socialists criticised François Fillon, the prime minister, for failing to speak to the unions over proposed pension reforms, which would raise minimum and full retirement ages to 62 and 67.

Sorry folks, I think at some point you're going to have to do the math and accept that somethings just don't add up they way we want the to.

Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence services, according to a senior NATO official.

The latest assessment contradicts the belief that the al-Qaeda leader is roughing it in underground bunkers as he dodged CIA drones hunting him from the air.

"Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," according to an unnamed Nato official quoted by CNN.

I would love to know how we both know this and have not um... visited, those houses.

On the lighter side, mysterious lights over El Paso that are similar to those seen in NYC a few days ago.  UFO's?  Military Maneuvers?  The truth is out there but I think the use of the X-Files theme is becoming a bit passe.