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• 8. PAKISTAN HAS FIVE NEW CASES OF POLIO JUST IN JANUARY
• Last year, the country had 92 cases, almost double the number in Nigeria and Afghanistan.
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• 9. 'SNAKE SALVATION' PASTOR DIES AFTER HE'S BITTEN BY RATTLER
• Jamie Coots, a Kentucky preacher who appeared on National Geographic's reality show, was killed by attack during Saturday night church service.
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• 10. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS TREES IN GOLF SUCCUMBS TO ICE STORM
• The Eisenhower Tree, named because Ike hit it so many times off the tee, was on the 17th hole at the famed Augusta National Golf Club.
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AP News in Brief
Ethiopian plane hijacked to Geneva by co-pilot who wanted asylum in Switzerland
• GENEVA (AP) -- An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Rome on Monday and flew it to Geneva, where he wanted to seek asylum, officials said.
• The Boeing 767-300 plane with 202 passengers and crew aboard had taken off from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and landed in the Swiss city at about 6 a.m. (0500 GMT). Officials said no one on the flight was injured.
• Geneva airport chief executive Robert Deillon told reporters that the co-pilot, an Ethiopian man born in 1983, took control of the plane when the pilot ventured outside the cockpit.
• "The pilot went to the toilet and he (the co-pilot) locked himself in the cockpit," Deillon said.
• The man "wanted asylum in Switzerland," he said. "That's the motivation of the hijacking."
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Putin's time in Sochi reflects his discipline and wiles
• SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- So far during the Winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin hasn't shown off his pecs, scuba-dived to a treasure site or engaged in any sort of the he-man stunts he's known for.
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