Unix Timestamp: 1200873600
Monday, January 21. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Former Liberian warlord Joshua Milton Blahyi confesses that he is responsible for at least 20,000 deaths during the First Liberian Civil War. //edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/21/liberia.general.ap/index.html (CNN)

North American Markets: U.S. markets are closed for Martin Luther King Day. Stock futures are down, with March contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading 482 points lower to 11,624. SP 500 futures are also down 55 points to 1,270.10 and Nasdaq 100 futures are down 72.25 points to 1,777.25. The Toronto Stock Exchange loses over 500 points during morning trading at 12,233. //www.marketwatch.com/news/story/stock-futures-pointing-sharp-losses/story.aspx?guid=%7B9A894790%2D5D69%2D48C6%2D8303%2D18EE41CA5D1C%7D (MarketWatch) //www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/01/21/worldstocklosses.html (CBC)

Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7199552.stm (BBC News) //www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23433407-details/Black+Monday+as+biggest+FTSE+crash+since+911+wipes+off+nearly+%A360bn+in+shares/article.do (thisislondon.co.uk)

Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.

A Turkish court bans YouTube for the second time because of clips deemed disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. //www.physorg.com/news120108745.html (PhysOrg.com)