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January 18, 2013 | | WATCH THIS! After a damning U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report, retirement from his foundation, and years of lawsuits and accusations from his former teammates and associates, Lance Armstrong finally confessed on Thursday night. Watch the best moments from his riveting interview with Oprah Winfrey, from his blunt admission of doping to calling himself a big “bully.” OFF THE MARK The tissue of lies in the Notre Dame star’s personal life would have been easy to unravel, but few tried. The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz on how the mainstream press fell for the story of an imaginary tragedy. STANDOFF At least 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for in the standoff with Islamic militants in Algeria, the country’s state news agency said Friday. Half of the 132 foreign nationals have been freed, along with 573 Algerians, says Reuters. According to a Mauritanian news agency, the kidnappers offered to trade two American hostages for two jailed terrorists, including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. British Prime Minister David Cameron warned his country early Friday to prepare for “more bad news,” as there are still some British nations at risk. Cameron said the British government had not been told by Algeria about the rescue mission beforehand. MISHAPS Uh oh, here come the big guns. A team of U.S. aviation experts arrived in Japan on Friday to inspect the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet that was forced to make an emergency landing last week as the aircraft were grounded worldwide for battery issues. The five representatives from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Boeing are working with Japanese authorities to investigate the aircraft, as regulators in Japan say it’s unclear when the plane can return to the air. Sources said the U.S. investigation is focused on the Japanese-made batteries—and there’s no indication the ones made by American manufacturer United Technology Pratt & Whitney were involved. WILD It’s a tough day for climate-change deniers. Wild weather hit across the globe, with snowstorms blanketing the U.S. Southeast and Britain as Australia had its hottest day on record. In the U.S., parts of Mississippi saw 2 to 4 inches of snow Thursday as the storm moved north to Virginia, where it dumped 13 inches on the northwestern part of the state. Across the Atlantic, Britain came to a standstill as much of the country was hit by 40-hour snowstorm with up to 12 inches expected. But in the Southern Hemisphere, Sydney scorched on its hottest day on record, with temperatures 46 degrees Celsius, or 114 degrees Fahrenheit. In Victoria, at least one man was killed by a brushfire, and firefighters battled wildfires in New South Wales and Victoria. | | 
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