blog #46/Chicago Sun Times

1. U.S.: DNA confirms death of Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Was killed in a firefight with elite american forces Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. Long believed to be hinding in caves, bin Laden was tracked down in a costly, custom-built hideout not far from Pakistan. President Obama says that justice has been done.

2. Prince William, Catherine stall honeymoon to throw off paparazzi. Once again prince William and his new bride, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, pulled a fast one on the world's media. While the speculation was rampant about where the newlyweds would honeymoon immediately after their wedding, William and Kate didn't play along. A source close to them said that they new keeping the location of where their honeymoon would be would virtually impossible. While they know that they will spend the rest of their life in the spotlight, they figured postponing it a couple of weeks would make it easier to slip away.

3. Nintendo says successor to Wii coming in 2012. In disclosing its plans  Monday, Nintendo Co. didn't say what the new system will do. The Japanese company plans to show a playable model of the new console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which runs June 7-9 in Los Angeles. Nintendo has dominated sales of video game consoles and sold 86 million Wiis since launching it in 2006. The Wii caused a splash with its innovative motion-sensing controller.

4. Playstation Network outage prompts Sony investigation. LOS ANGELES — Sony Corp. is investigating the outage of its PlayStation Network, a system that links gamers in live play worldwide.The company first blogged about the outage Wednesday, and on Thursday said it could take a “full day or two” to get the service back up and running. It did not indicate what it believed to be the cause of the outage.

Posts on a PlayStation message board on Friday afternoon indicated the system was still down.

5. 3DS easy to get hooked on. Grown-ups and casual gamers aren't typically the people you see glued to a portable game system from nintendo. But having spent time with the handheld Nintendo 3DS, which goes on sale Sunday, I can envision kids wrestling Mom and Dad for the chance to have a go at Nintendo’s highly anticipated portable player. The 3DS, is fun, addictive and pricey at $250. Especially when you consider its its portable predecessors, the Nintendo DS family, cost $130 to $170.