The online version of the story does not include the apology.

The offending papers include the Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times of London. The broadcaster was Sky News. Here’s a blog post from a Telegraph editor that explains why the photo is fake.

Here’s the Los Angeles Times saying that no photos of a dead Bin Laden have been released:

According to Pentagon officials, photos of Bin Laden’s dead face do exist but those widely distributed on the Internet are fake. At some point, if only to convince die-hard Bin Laden followers, officials are expected to release a corpse photo, as has been done in the past when famous villains such as Che Guevara and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein were killed or captured. Additionally, such special ops are typically videotaped by mini-helmet cams to document a sensitive mission and assist in debriefing and future training.

The Daily Mirror issued a similar apology last year.

Thanks, Bob!

Owing to an editing error, our report “Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists” (June 23) wrongly stated that research presented at the recent BPS conference by Sophia Shaw found that women who drink alcohol are more likely to be raped. In fact, the research found the opposite. We apologise for our error.

Update July 16, 2:45 pm: Commenter Charlene points to a Bad Science article that offers more background on the correction. As Charlene notes, "That correction doesn’t even scrape the surface of the mistakes they made."

The caption has been fixed, though there’s no correction.

Thanks, Smylers!

Dear Colleagues

I have exhorted you all to read carefully what you write. I think some of you are now doing this, but not always thinking about what it is that you read. This can be the only explanation for this week’s worst horror (and, sadly, there is some competition). We ran a story in Tuesday’s paper about a farmer’s wife who died of a heart attack after a thief stole diesel from her farm. This unfortunate lady was called Mrs Dove. Her son is called Michael Dove. In the story he became Michael Gove; who happens to be the Conservative spokesman on schools. You might think this could hardly get worse. I fear it could, and did. Michael Gove not only became the unfortunate woman’s son. He also became a victim in his own right. The thief “admitted to [sic] the theft of diesel, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Michael Gove and stealing the Mitsubishi pickup‚” Later, this gem of a piece included the phrase “After his was arrest”. I shall not bother to try to compute the number of people who should have read this story before it appeared on the nation’s breakfast tables on Tuesday morning. You get my drift.

There have been so many literals this week that I suspect some of you either never could spell, or have given up trying. Perhaps my favourite was “hocky mom”, followed by “plumb compote” (bring on the lead poisoning). One reader, having spotted the words “Chrsitmas” and “adminsitration” in the same story wondered whether our newsroom was now being run by “mnokeys”. While it is good to provide the customers with amusement, it should be intentional …

If we are setting tests or quizzes for our readers, do try to ensure the right answers really are right. A test for would-be immigrants managed to get the voltage figure for this country wrong. It also said that one had to be 16 to enter the lottery which, as several readers pointed out, appeared to be hard on those aged 17 or more. The answer “16 or over” would have been better. I must stress again that it is of enormous importance to get styles and titles correct, even when they belong to fictional characters. An article on the new film Australia this week referred to the heroine as being first Lady Sarah Ashley and then Lady Ashley. She cannot be both. In the film she is the daughter of an earl, and therefore the first style is correct …

Last week, SPIEGEL ONLINE published an article about IKEA products named after Danish cities. We regret that we must retract the article because of inaccurate reporting. We apologize for the error.
In the article originally published at this address, SPIEGEL falsely reported that Danish researchers Klaus Kjøller and Trøls Mylenberg had conducted a “thorough analysis” of the naming conventions at Swedish furniture maker IKEA. In fact, Kjøller was approached by a journalist from the free daily Nyhedsavisen who had inquired about why apparently inferior IKEA products had been given the names of Danish towns.
Kjøller answered the question, but says he was very surprised by the “extremely exaggerated” article that appeared on the cover of Nyhedsavisen the following day, which would later get picked up by other media in Denmark and abroad, including SPIEGEL ONLINE.
“The story sounds good, but it unfortunately isn’t true,” Kjøller told SPIEGEL ONLINE on Monday. The author of the article and the editorial staff failed to contact Kjøller prior to the publication of the article.
SPIEGEL ONLINE strives to adhere to the highest standards of reporting and apologizes to its readers for the error, which we deeply regret.
– The Editors

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