The USA Today lead headline online early Monday morning says "S. Korea's president says he failed nation." The paper says South Korea's president told his nation today that he feels he failed to protect them from a deadly North Korean artillery barrage last week. As he spoke, U.S. and South Korean warships participated in military exercises in the Yellow Sea.
It says White House spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement condemning the anticipated release of classified documents by the website WikiLeaks.
The paper says after Friday's dramatic 28-27 victory at Alabama, and with one week left in college football's regular season, Auburn has taken over the top spot in the Bowl Championship Series standings by a narrow margin on Oregon.
It says Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
And the most popular story on USA Today says "Top 25 poll: Oregon, Auburn stay at top; TCU jumps to third."

