Iraq’s election is today, and bombs are going off in Baghdad.

More aftershocks in Chile.

Pakistan claims to have killed another leader of the Taliban.

Defections from Scientology: “Fifty-six years after its founding by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a Reformation.”

Sugar turning sour: the land deal proposed by Gov. Crist to restore the Everglades is in trouble.

Still struggling: the majority of high school sophomores in South Florida are not reading at their grade level.

No Oscars for you — Disney pulls ABC from Cablevision in New York over a contract dispute.