The people who do the heavy lifting are bailing out of one ungrateful country – Police investigate a sinister attack on the most vulnerable kids – and thousands of Pakistani school kids will not be taught about the bravest of them.

Thousands of foreign laborers in Saudi Arabia are opting to leave after clashes with police left one foreigner and one Saudi dead.  The unrest broke out in reaction to a Saudi campaign to arrest and deport illegal immigrants who were given until last week to get valid work permits or leave the country.  Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Persian Gulf nations have long relied on large numbers of foreign laborers from Africa, Asia and elsewhere to do the work citizens won’t.

Iraq and Turkey are pledging to end the diplomatic tensions plaguing the two neighbors.  Relations had been strained when Turkey gave refuge to Iraq’s former Sunni vice president, who had been accused of running death squads. Turkish support for Sunni-led anti-government protests and unilateral energy deals with Iraq’s self-ruled northern Kurdish region further inflamed tensions.

The notorious leader of one of Colombia's most violent drug gangs has been arrested in Spain.  Police say Cipriam Manuel Palencia Gonzalez, the head of the Urabenos gang, is wanted for a string of crimes including the murder of a police officer in Colombia.  He was detained in Madrid on Friday while planning new drug routes to Spain.

A reporter with the US newspaper The Miami Herald has arrived back home after being detained for two days by Venezuela.  Jim Wyss had been reporting on local elections and chronic food and merchandise shortages plaguing the South American country.  Wyss says he was arrested by the military and sent to a detention center in Caracas, and when it was confirmed he was a journalist, he was released.  He says he was sent home because he didn’t have the right work permit.

Four people were killed in a small plane crash off Grand Bahama Island in the Caribbean.  All of the victims are believed to be Americans.  Shortly after takeoff, the Cirrus 22’s pilot radioed that his plane was “experiencing some engine problems” and crashed into the sea.

An orphanage worker in Pretoria, South Africa is charged after 20 young children were rushed to hospital with symptoms of poisoning, two in critical condition.  The children are AIDS orphans living in the Malerato Centre for Hope outside Pretoria, a facility for some 40 such abandoned kids.  Police did not reveal the suspect’s motive.

Pakistani private schools are banning the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai, the brave schoolgirl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for her education activism.  The head of the country’s largest private school organization says Malala’s book is un-Islamic, and accuses her of betraying Pakistan (I guess by allowing the world to know that parts of the country are overrun by stinking cowards who shoot little girls in the head).  The Pakistani Taliban has recently named the jerk who organized the Malala hit as its new leader.