Cops reopen a famous missing child case – A Nobel Peace Prize laureate failed to completely condemn mob violence and murder – And you won’t believe why the cop who gained worldwide infamy by pepper spraying peaceful protesters is back in the news.

Police in Portugal are reopening the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the little British girl last seen in her parents’ hotel room on what turned out to be their nightmare holiday in May of 2007.  The Portuguese investigation will follow a separate track than the formal investigation open by Scotland Yard in July of this year.  Kate and Gerry McCann, and the UK Home Secretary have welcomed the development.

A Bulgarian couple has stepped forward to claim they are the biological parents of “Maria”, the little blond girl Greek police removed from the care of a Roma family.  DNA tests are now being conducted to verify the claim.  The Bulgarians say they lived in a Greece a few years ago, and handed the baby over to the other family because they could not afford to take her back to Bulgaria.  Both families insist no monies changed hands.

Thailand's most senior Buddhist leader the Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara has died at age 100.  He was a friend of the Dalai Lama and was revered by Buddhists all over the world.  The patriarch has been hospitalized since 2004, and actually outlived the monk assigned to carry out his work, who passed away earlier this year.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stopped short of specifically condemning anti-Muslim violence in her country and attributed it to “a climate of fear”.  Muslims are about four percent of Myanmar’s population; 140,000 have been driven from their homes recently and hundreds have been killed by mobs with rocks and sharpened sticks.  Leaders including Suu Kyi have been criticized for not speaking up against the mob violence, tied largely to the nationalism of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority.

A boiler explosion in a candy factory in the North Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez has killed at least one worker and injured as many as 52 more, many suffered second- and third-degree burns.  Officials say some 20 people are missing after the ceiling caved in at the US-owned factory. Ciudad Juarez is located just across the Rio Grande from the West Texas town of El Paso.

A great milestone for Nigeria, which has cut its number of Polio cases by 50 percent in 2013.  The number of Polio cases reported so far in 2013 is 49, half the number from the same period in 2012.  But healthcare workers warn that for any patient, Polio is devastating and they’re still having difficulties getting to work in areas controlled by the fundamentalist Muslim militant group Boko Haram.

A US National Guard Sergeant shot and wounded two of his superiors just outside the National Guard Armory in Millington, Tennessee near Memphis.  The suspect is in custody.  It comes just six weeks after another gunman fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at Navy Yard in Washington, DC.

A corpulent former California College cop who gained international infamy by pepper-spraying seated, peaceful protesters at close range was paid US$38,000 in compo – way more than what was awarded to his victims.  Porcine Lieutenant John Pike got compo for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from calmly and methodically torturing his countrymen, captured on notorious YouTube videos.  The University of California at Davis students each got about US$30,000 for getting burning gas shot up their eyes and noses.  The tubby cop’s award is about equal to $2 for every hate email he received before getting canned.

A stray bull attacked a traffic officer in Romania.  There’s no news value here, but the video is pretty cool.  The bull was rounded up and returned to its owner, and one day will be served on a platter in a savory sauce, perhaps with potatoes and steamed vegetables.  The cop went to the hospital but will recover.