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ROT IN HELL!. It’s simple, and it says it. The New York Daily News had to deliver–especially with the world-renowned New York Post headline team across town scrambling for their own suitable-for-framing effort to immortalize the moment in history. But the Posties, with GOT HIM! fell just short.

Around the country, there were lots of “We Got Him” headlines and plenty of big, bold versions of the classic DEAD, including the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Pete Times.

Here are some of the most entertaining ways newspapers headlined the big story:

In the wake of Japane’s recent massive earthquake and accompanying tsunami, the daily Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, based in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, found itself without power… So it produced new issues during a crucial time using what was available to editors – paper, and pen.

Perhaps you have already read the article in the New York Times World section today about the enormous amount of violence in the Philippines that seems to be caused by karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra‘s “My Way.” Things have apparently gotten so bad that the Filipino media records the crimes under the subcategory of “My Way Killings.” But the reporter on this story, Norimitsu Onishi, is notable himself, consistently getting American audiences interested in Asian news.