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National Post: Bored and confined to a wheelchair for months, Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan saw inspiration in her newborn child and began to sew. Soon enough, her four-month-old daughter, Faustina, became both muse and model, adorned in miniature costumes replicating nine infamous men including Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler.

Telegraph: The aim of the experiment is to show how the manipulative power of television can push people to ever more outrageous limits. A team of psychologists recruited 80 volunteers, telling them they were taking part in a pilot for a new television show. They were instructed to pose questions to another "player", and punish him with up to 460 volts of electricity when he got answers wrong. Not knowing that the screaming victim was really an actor, the apparently reluctant contestants yielded to the orders of the presenter and audience, who also believed the game was real.

CNN: Anti-government protesters launched a blood drive Tuesday to collect enough samples to douse the ministers' offices. The dramatic gesture is the latest move by the anti-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and call new elections.

"This was the most terrible match in my life. At first we didn't understand, then we seen that a fan climbed over the glasses and with a stick hit Vitaly [Kolesnik]'s head. Only a miracle saved him. I don't want to think if that person would hit him in the temple. This was a shock for everyone in the arena."

"She just decided to do this."

An avalanche 150 yards wide and as much as 1.6 miles long thundered down a steep snow bowl at the Canadian Rocky Mountain resort of Revelstoke, where competitors were attempting to scale the treacherous slope on high-powered snow machines during an unsanctioned rally.

Reuters: A military statement described Maher Audi as a founder of Hamas in the West Bank and said he was responsible for the death of 10 Israelis. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian Authority.

AP: A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital and a Shiite province in the south.

WGAL: Federal regulators said a U.S. citizen in custody in Yemen as a suspected al-Qaida member worked at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it's investigating what access Sharif Mobley might have had to sensitive areas.

AP: The Swedish artist who drew a caricature depicting Muhammad as a dog says artistic freedom should allow mockery of all religions. Lars Vilks, the target of an alleged murder plot involving a woman called 'Jihad Jane', says he has no regrets.