(August 9, 2007) While we Americans are fixated by the tragic collapse of a bridge and a mine shaft, the news goes on elsewhere. Global Pulse covered three important stories we may have missed.

- In Mexico, 200 million US dollars in cash is found in a man's basement. The man is Chinese and he accuses the government of planting the money, deepening the mystery.

- Russia is jubilant over the success of its North Pole expedition, complete with the planting of a Russian flag on the ocean bed - atop the huge deposits of oil and gas that lie below.

- And India is in anguish over the imprisonment of a Bollywood superstar. Sanjay Dutt was convicted on a weapons charge related to a terrorist bombing, but the news is focused on the tragedy of his disappearance from the silver screen.

SOURCES: Primero Noticias, Mexico; Russia Today, Russia; BBC, U.K.; South Asia News, India.

(August 9, 2007) While we Americans are fixated by the tragic collapse of a bridge and a mine shaft, the news goes on elsewhere. Global Pulse covered three important stories we may have missed.

- In Mexico, 200 million US dollars in cash is found in a man's basement. The man is Chinese and he accuses the government of planting the money, deepening the mystery.

- Russia is jubilant over the success of its North Pole expedition, complete with the planting of a Russian flag on the ocean bed - atop the huge deposits of oil and gas that lie below.

- And India is in anguish over the imprisonment of a Bollywood superstar. Sanjay Dutt was convicted on a weapons charge related to a terrorist bombing, but the news is focused on the tragedy of his disappearance from the silver screen.

SOURCES: Primero Noticias, Mexico; Russia Today, Russia; BBC, U.K.; South Asia News, India.