The observation decks of the tallest tower in the world opened to the public on Tuesday. Here are six important facts and figures to know about Skytree, pulled from the Associated Press.

“This is Gary, Gary Locke,” the ambassador said.

I wasn’t expecting the call, and I fumbled around to see if I had a notebook and pen anywhere near at hand. 

“God Has a New House”, declared India’s leading daily, The Times of India on Friday about the entry of the reigning superstar of world cricket into the Rajya Sabha, or the House of Elders, one of two Houses in the Indian parliament.

Last time Jimmy Fallon had a presidential candidate on his late night TV show, his house band, the Roots, sparked outrage by performing Fishbone’s “Lyin’ A-- B----” for Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann. Tonight, “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” airs from the University of North Carolina with another candidate scheduled to drop in: President Obama.

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James Murdoch, News Corp.’s deputy chief operating officer, was head of News International, News Corp.’s British newspaper arm, until he resigned in February. He will give evidence on Tuesday.

Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, strolled toward a police checkpoint in the district of Sar Howza with a wanted poster bearing his own face. He demanded the finder’s fee referenced on the poster: $100.

In an exclusive report, Reuters cites two individuals with knowledge of the police investigation who claim Heywood was poisoned after a falling out with Bo Gu Kailai, the wife of one of China’s top Communist Party leaders, Bo Xilai. Bo Gu Kailai reportedly became angry at Heywood after he threatened to reveal her plan to move money abroad. Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in November. Bo Gu Kailai is now in police custody under suspicion of murder and her husband’s once-promising career in the Communist Party has been demolished and his whereabouts are unknown.

A chemistry professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, from the Jadavpur University in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, forwarded a cheeky cartoon strip to his friends that made fun of the state’s mercurial chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Late Thursday, the professor was beaten up by angry political workers of Banerjee’s party, Trinamool Congress, and later arrested by the state police.

In Pyongyang, the North Korean government acknowledged that the rocket launch — referred to as an “earth observation satellite” -- failed to orbit. It was a rare admission from a country known for it’s myth-making, writes The Washington Post’s Chico Harlan.