Best corrections of the year

I'm awake at 12:40 a.m. because the Senate is expected to vote at 1 a.m., and I'm the lucky copy editor who was scheduled to be on duty tonight — and tomorrow morning.

So, while I'm waiting, I figured I'd share the media's best corrections and errors of 2009. Just one excerpt:

Apology of the Year
The Sun (U.K.):

IN a report on May 5, 2009, headlined “Riddle of Boruc, the brunette and his hair straighteners”, we claimed that Artur Boruc had brought two girls to the house he shares with partner Sara Mannei and had sex with one of them. We published a picture which we said showed him straightening one of the girls’ hair. We now accept the picture was in fact of Mr Boruc and his younger sister Paulina in Poland some years earlier, and that neither did Mr Boruc invite back nor have sex with either of the girls in our story. We apologise to Mr Boruc and Ms Mannei for any embarrassment caused.