The Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner set a world record today when he jumped out of a balloon gondola 24 miles above New Mexico. Preliminary indications are that his rate of descent exceeded the speed of sound before his parachute opened a few thousand feet above the Earth.
In other news, thousands of Muslims protested outside the London offices of Google over the continued hosting of the notorious Mohammed movie by YouTube.
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