New York Post | Dramatic video posted online shows a man being swallowed by a sinkhole in real time.

FoxNews.com | Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians.

PanArmenian.net | No explanation has been given of why the demand has been made.

CNS News | As of today, according to both a senior administration official and a State Department spokesperson, this U.S. citizen remains imprisoned in post-Qaddafi Libya.

BBC | Regional tension remains high after the North’s third nuclear test last month.

BBC | Although a handover ceremony took place last September, US forces remained at the prison pending a deal over the fate of certain prisoners.

Economic Collapse | If you still have money in European banks, you need to get it out.

Reuters | Riot police used tear gas to disperse street demonstrations by sympathizers trying to block the eviction.

Sky News | The body of the exiled critic of the Russian government is discovered in his bath amid reports that he killed himself.

The Independent | Putin: “We are working together, helping to shape a new, more just world order, ensure peace and security, defend basic principles of international law.”

stratrisks.com | Brotherhood and Jam’a al-Islamiya have announced their intention to set up a joint civilian police force with other Islamists.

Economic Collapse | It is now being reported that Cyprus Popular Bank only has “enough liquidity to cover the next few hours”.

Lew Rockwell Blog | The US government has taken it upon itself to choose a new leader for Syria.

Infowars.com | Obama: “Each country must make its own decision regarding Iran.”

AFP | British government insists blog and social media posts won’t be regulated, but critics are wary.

Zero Hedge | In Nigel Farage’s first TV appearance since the Cypriot wealth tax was announced, the Englishman pulls no punches.

UK Daily Mail | South Korea appears to have been the target of a cyber-attack from the North after computer systems at broadcasters and banks in the country simultaneously crashed today.

YouTube | Victims of the attack were anti-FSA civilians and Syrian troops.

Harriet Sherwood | Opportunity “to show our gratitude to the American people.”

Infowars.com | Alex talks to Gerald Celente about which may be the next nation to be similarly plundered.

Paul Craig Roberts | March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq.

ProPublica | While Bahraini government continues to bar human rights advocates and journalists from entering the country, one non-profit group is opening an office there.

Mike Adams | There’s only one reason people leave money in a bank: because they think it’s safe there.

Zero Hedge | That Russia has previously threatened, and followed through with, sending ships to the Mediterranean is nothing new.

AFP | Warns of “devastating consequences” if recent cross-border tension escalates into a full-scale conflict.

bloomberg.com | Cites Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties as reason.

edmontonjournal.com | Bailout agreement with international creditors that includes a levy on all the country’s bank accounts.

AFP | Just days ago, Shanghai government reassured citizens water is safe to drink.

RIA Novosti | Vast majority of heroin consumed in Russia is from Afghanistan.

The Telegraph | Quantitative easing could cost the taxpayer £8bn; BOE warns in its first admission that the “money printing” program may be unprofitable.

Reuters | Acting President Maduro: “We have the intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted him out of the way.”

Live Science | “The PLA now fields one of the world’s most expansive UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] fleets.”

ABC News | Government has been playing down the incident and reassured citizens that tap water samples passed government tests and is safe to drink.

Paul Craig Roberts | Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population.

Wall Street Journal | New provisions would allow court system’s top administrator and prosecutors to choose which judges hear legal cases.

AFP | Shanghai said it was testing water samples from the river on an hourly basis and so far all indicators were “normal”.

AFP | “There will be no more austerity measures,” Samaras said in a televised speech.

ABC News | There are secret discussions going on inside the Vatican, as a pope could be named within days.

London Guardian | Brennan’s confirmation hearing as CIA director was a crucial test of the Senate’s exercise of oversight.

Rand Paul | I believe the support I received this past week shows that Americans are looking for someone to really stand up and fight for them. And I’m prepared to do just that.

AFP | Website encourages faithful to pray for individual cardinals chosen at random by a computer program.

Lew Rockwell | The basketball star has been demonized for his peace visit to North Korea.

Paul Joseph Watson | Head of Communist Party says simultaneous cancers of Latin-American politicians was “far from a coincidence”.

Mike Adams | Hugo Chavez is dead, leaving one less control freak tyrant desecrating our planet, but one more empty seat of corruption and power to be filled.

egyptindependent.com | Suez Canal city of Port Said has been gripped by its second day of bloody clashes.

Washington Free Beacon | Chinese general who threatened nuclear strike on U.S. visits Washington this week.

Adrian Salbuchi | Maybe Corleone’s best disciples are actually running the show after all.

The Guardian | Service will ferry workers from the Palestinian town of Qalqiliya across the border of the West Bank towards Tel Aviv.

VOA News | Kerry says the United States will make $190 million available immediately from a promised $450-million package.

BBC | ‘A spokesman for the Queen said she was in “good health”, besides the symptoms of gastroenteritis.’