Score one for the good guys. Liz Smart came home, one of the very few to be so lucky. Also the first story in ages to knock global war and disasters and a sucky economy off the headline.

Speaking of headlines, you say you're getting pretty sick of this lopsided news? Then check out the Iraq Daily, published by the Ministry of Information. Well, yeah - it's lopsided too. Of course. But it helps to present some kind of balance in the reporting if you put that and CNN together and then read between the lines.