The tragic story of Shaniya Davis' life is over, for the moment, as her funeral was held on Sunday. It was attended by more than 2,000 people. Showing that NBA players are not all selfish and entitled, NBA star Shaquille O'Neal quietly has paid for the funeral.

Nutty Putty Cave sounds like it's a made-up name, but it is not. Nutty Putty cave in a tourist attraction in Stansbury Park, UT, and John Edward Jones, 26, was stuck in a narrow crevice. Unfortunately, during the rescued attempt, he was killed.

Activist site WIkileaks, which bills itself as a place where whistleblowers can submit documents and information to be anonymously published, is in the process of releasing over 500,000 pager text messages from 9/11. The site called the messages "U.S. national text pager intercepts." They did not explain how they received the "intercepts."

British support for the war in Afghanistan is waning as lack of results become apparent. Bob Ainsworth blames the lack of support for the war effort among British citizens as a result of Obama’s policies. Lack of direction may lead to a British withdrawal from the coalition.

The tainted milk scandal from 2008 has resulted in the execution of two people in China. The two have been the only sentenced to death in the case, which involved diluting milk with melamine, an industrial chemical.

USGS reports a strong earthquake strikes off of Tonga. The magnitude was 6.8.

Under mounting pressure Hamid Karzai is being urged to prosecute 15 senior appointees in his cabinet. This comes after numerous allegations of corruption and international efforts to clean up the Afghan government. Suspicions of embezzlement and bribery may hurt efforts to stabilize the region.

A new law approved by the parliament in Catalonia in Spain treats the same space for a formal church to a mosque. According to Italian newspaper La Stampa the creation of a new party in Spain, called Mohammedan, the country sees a fall of one of the ancient social and religious taboos: the supremacy of Catholicism.

Herman Van Rompy, the first European Union president, is to push for a EU tax. Joining forces with the European Commission to institute wide sweeping taxing powers, the proposal was made by the commission's head Jose Barroso.

Shaniya Davis's funeral held Sunday in Fayetteville, NC. Open to the public, it will prove to be a sad ending to the horrific story of the five-year-old's death. Davis' body was found off a rural road in North Carolina on Monday.

In Ciudad Juarez a group of Mexican business leaders have proposed requesting UN peace keepers to quell the growing violence. The sister city to El Paso, TX is experiencing levels of violence that the Mexican army can barely control. About 2000 people have been murdered so far this year.