Badminton, yes, Badminton is making headlines news in both India and the United Kingdom. The Times of India on its front page reports on the England team pulling out of the world badminton championships. The event begins today in Hyderabad, without the English participants. They have flown home after apparent threats of a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist attack. The decision to fly home was taken after talks with the Foreign Office and the British High Commission in India. All other teams, though, are staying put.

And this fact is being picked up by plenty of newspapers in the UK. The Independent, The Times, and The Daily Telegraph mention the criticism now being dished out by the badminton governing body. It believes the English team simply overreacted

The Independent from the UK has what it plugs as the first face-and-face interview with a blogger from Georgia who was at the centre of an internet attack on Thursday and Friday. It is believed the man who simply calls himself Giorgi was the aim of a massive attack  on both Facebook and Twitter. The blogger was preparing an entry on the Georgia-Russia conflict of a year ago when he was hit by what he believes was an attack by the Russian secret services. Giorgi says he is "proud because these bad people attacked me. It means I am doing a good thing.”

In Spain, the death of a footballer that’s opened old wounds. The heart attack sufferd by Espanyol captain Jarque in Italy was not the first death of a professionnal footballer in the last few years. Football writer Rob Hughes in the International Herald Tribune thinks "soccer is haunted by an inexplicable trend."