JUSTIN FUNG

Hope you all had a great Christmas and are recovering nicely from eating bountifully!

News

• A bomb targeting Shia Muslims goes off in a Pakistani market.
• Ten civilians, including eight children, are killed in fighting in Afghanistan.
• More protests and more arrests in Iran.
• "Avatar," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" lead the US box office to a record haul.

Human trafficking

• Republican Senator John Cornyn (TX) and Democrat Senator Ron Wyden (OR) cooperate to introduce an anti-trafficking bill.

Politics

• Andrew Sullivan considers 2009 a pretty good year for Barack.

Miscellaneous

• GQ looks at the changes that Rupert Murdoch brought to the Wall Street Journal.
• Check out Digg’s top ten stories of 2009.