ABC News: "With the help of North Korea, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has acquired components for a nuclear weapons program, including technology for uranium enrichment and long-range missiles, ABC News has learned."

NPR: "Sometimes a single picture has a way of capturing an important news story in a way that remains fixed in the public’s imagination and defines that story."

William McGurn: If there is one extraordinary fact here, it is this: Notwithstanding a pro-choice orthodoxy that dominates our film, our television, our press and our colleges and universities, strong moral qualms about abortion have not gone away.

Gail Kerr: "Tennessee lawmakers who fight for laws to "choose life" now want to cut funding that helps keep the babies alive once they are born."

The Fix: "Alabama Republican Rep. Parker Griffith was soundly defeated in a Republican primary tonight, the second party switcher to lose an intraparty fight in the past two weeks."

NY Times: "Israel faced intense international condemnation and growing domestic questions on Monday after a raid by naval commandos that killed nine people, many of them Turks, on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza...Israel said the violence was instigated by pro-Palestinian activists who presented themselves as humanitarians but had come ready for a fight. Organizers … Continue reading Israeli Raid on Aid Flotilla

Ban Ki-moon: "World leaders gathered in Rome 12 years ago to establish the International Criminal Court. Seldom since the founding of the United Nations has such a resounding blow been struck for peace, justice and human rights."

Washington Post, Divine Impulses: Pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak on the 'hypocrisy' of pro-life groups who used abortion as a political weapon to oppose healthcare.

Photos of the animals.