NEWSWEEK LIED*. PEOPLE DIED.

You have the read the story by now via the Times (UK) online and elsewhere: 'At least nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked by a single paragraph in a magazine alleging that US military interrogators had desecrated the Koran.

Newsweek's Mark Whitaker now admits that the deadly paragraph was wrong.