IAEA: SNIFFS OUT NUKES, CURES CANCER - To mark World Cancer Day, Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch reports about a little-known portfolio within the International Atomic Energy Agency: curing cancer. We tend to think of cancer as a disease of the developed world, but the stereotype is false. Half of all cancer diagnoses are for people in developing countries. Over half of all cancer patients in rich countries get radiation therapy, but the treatment is out of reach for many in the developing world. That's where the IAEA comes in. IAEA technicians upgrade an calibrate radiation therapy equipment in 116 poor countries to keep it running safely and effectively. Link

OBAMA, MEET LAMA - President Barack Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama, whether China likes it or not. Actually, we already know that China doesn't like it one bit. Bejing has warned Washington that a meeting between the POTUS and the leader of the Tibetan independence movement would harm U.S.-China relations. China is also upset over the U.S.'s decision to sell arms to Taiwan. On the U.S.'s part, there is lingering bitterness towards China for its blatant obstructionism during the Copenhagen climate summit. Link

100-YEAR-OLD SCOTCH FOUND IN ANTARCTIC - Five crates of Scotch whisky and two crates of brandy have been discovered in an antarctic hut that belonged to explorer Ernest Shackleton. Some of the bottles cracked since they were left there in 1909, but many are intact. The bottles were frozen in the ice until preservationists from New Zealand extracted them. Link

OWN LAWYER BLAMES U.S. MISSIONARY FOR HAITI KIDNAP PLOT - Ten Baptist missionaries are accused of trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country without permission. A lawyer for all the defendants is trying to shift all the blame to the group's leader, Laura Silsby. The lawyer says that the other nine missionaries were just hapless pawns who had no idea that they needed any stinkin' paperwork to take other people's children to another country. Easy mistake to make. Here in America if you see a cute kid on the street, you can just take him home with you. Link

TURKISH GIRL BURIED ALIVE FOR TALKING TO BOYS - Turkish police say they've recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl, known only as MM, who was reportedly buried alive by her relatives for talking to boys. Thanks to an anonymous tip, her body was discovered bound in a meter-deep pit underneath a backyard chicken coop. She had previously been reported missing. Link