What's Newsworthy?

Runners sprint alongside Torrestrella fighting bulls as they take the Estafeta curve during the fifth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

What's New?

Just the news of the day, nothing
terribly unusual, as the United Nations
is addressed by a child insisting that
the world, including her benighted
country, the crucible of modern-day
terrorism invest in books, teachers and
schools for hungry young minds. Oh,
also that a Chinese teen, sprayed by
rescue workers with foam after a plane
crash in the U.S. was unfortunately crushed 
to her death when the firetruck ran over her
prostrate body. And in South Africa,
much regret when 60 young men die,
hundreds more hospitalized resulting
from a national tradition of ceremonial
initiation into manhood, failed. In 
Saudi Arabia protective face masks are
urged on millions embarked on a yearly
Mecca pilgrimage, to counter a deadly 
new virus that adores human contact in vast
crowds. While in Pamplona, again,
terrified bulls are taunted and tortured
in another humane tradition of huge
national pride and international acclaim,
leaving three runners in the maddening
crowd splendidly gored in festival mode.