While we were busy

While Michael Jackson's reliquary was being rolled out for the masses for a public viewing at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, other news was happening:

Researchers say that nearly 26 percent of mortgage defaults may be "strategic": Time

Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical letter calling for a more powerful U.N.: BBC

President Obama made an address at the New Economic School in Moscow in an effort to improve relations with Russia: NYT

And eight soldiers were killed in Afghanistan: CNN