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Stephen Harper is prime minister of Canada. In some editions Thursday, the front-page World-Wide news summary incorrectly referred to him as the country’s premier. Link  Report an error

“Empire Strikes Backstraat” isn’t the name of an actual street in Almere, the Netherlands. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the town had a street with that name. Link (sub req’d) Thanks, Niels!  Report an error

The Wall Street Journal Europe had average daily circulation of 100,769 in 2002. In some editions Friday, a graphic with a Corporate News article about the paper incorrectly stated the 2002 circulation as 101,769. Link  Report an error

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, when speaking of raising taxes to balance Italy’s budget, said, “It’s clear that our hearts are streaming with blood.” A World News article about Italy’s budget measures in some editions Saturday incorrectly quoted Mr. Berlusconi as saying, “It’s clear that our hearts are screaming with blood.” The incorrect quote also [...]

U.K. lawyer Jane Phillips says that in her closing argument in a 2000 libel case in London, she told the jury, referring to reporter Tim Luckett: “It appears from Mr. Luckett’s evidence that it is the police source, who he refused to identify, who is responsible for this information leaking into the public domain in [...]

I was a guest on last week’s edition of the WNYC program On The Media to discuss the Wall Street Journal’s scrubbing of its editorial about the attacks in Norway. Here’s their intro for the segment: In the wake of the Oslo attacks, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial blaming the violence on Islamic [...]

A June 15 article about a cargo sailboat docking in Brooklyn incorrectly stated the tonnage of bananas being carried by a nearby ship. The ship had 1,241 tons of bananas aboard, according to a port official; the article incorrectly said it was carrying 20,000 tons of bananas. Link  Report an error

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, is posting a $5 million bond as part of a package to gain his release from jail. In some editions Friday, a front-page What’s News item incorrectly gave the amount as $5 billion. Link  Report an error

The author Danielle Steel says she doesn’t drink alcohol and still retains her collection of couture clothing. Ms. Steel’s daughter Vanessa Traina is a stylist, fashion consultant and editor, and her daughter Victoria Traina is a fashion designer. An interview in Saturday’s Off Duty section incorrectly said that Ms. Steel drinks alcohol and has sold [...]

Lee Enterprises’ first-quarter loss was $1.47 million. A Money & Investing article in some editions Wednesday about the company’s bond offering incorrectly stated the loss as $1.47 billion. Link  Report an error

UBS AG's cost to resolve a case stemming from the sale of Lehman Brothers Holdings notes, before Lehman's collapse, is $10.75 million. The Financial Briefing Book in Tuesday's Money & Investing section incorrectly said $10.75 billion. Link  Report an error

In some editions Monday, a Money & Investing article about the Galleon insider-trading trial was incorrectly accompanied by a photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group. Because of incorrect information from Bloomberg News, he was misidentified as former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. In [...]

Twitter Inc. lets users post messages up to 140 characters in length. A Marketplace article on Wednesday incorrectly said messages can be up to 140 words. Link  Report an error

In 2003 Zahra Bahrami was convicted of drug smuggling in the Netherlands and sentenced to three years in prison. Monday's op-ed "Zahra Bahrami and Iran's Voices for Freedom" incorrectly stated that "Bahrami had no known history of drug use or criminality of any kind." Link  Report an error

A Samsung executive, in a conference call with analysts on Jan. 28, said that sales to consumers of Galaxy Tab were "quite smooth." A technology story erroneously quoted the executive as saying they were "quite small." Link  Report an error

Fouad Mebazaa is the interim President of Tunisia. A Jan. 19 article incorrectly named him the interior minister and incorrectly spelled his name. Link  Report an error

According to the U.S. Census's New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, apartments with four or more bedrooms represented more than 12% of owner-occupied units in New York City in 2008, compared with 12.8% in 2005. A Property article Tuesday incorrectly said that apartments with four or more bedrooms accounted for 1% of the owner-occupied [...]

A notable section from a Wall Street Journal article about the Taliban: The Taliban have in the past nine years become a relatively media-savvy organization, especially for Afghanistan, where major government ministries sometimes ask reporters to fax questions—in a country with few working land lines, and thus almost no fax machines. The Taliban, in contrast, [...]

Singer Neil Young was born Nov. 12, 1945, and singer Eric Clapton was born March 30, 1945. The Short List events calendar in Friday's Weekend Journal transposed their birthdates. In addition, the listing erred by identifying Mr. Young as a former heroin user; the Journal has no reporting to support that Mr. Young used the [...]

Yahoo Inc.'s Yahoo Mail had 97 million unique visitors in August. In some Sept. 11 editions, a Corporate News article about Yahoo's email makeover incorrectly said it had 97 visitors. Link Thanks, Daniel!  Report an error

Mary Gleason is president of Judith Leiber LLC. A Monday front-page article about Judith Leiber handbags incorrectly described Ms. Gleason as CEO of the company. Also, in some editions the article incorrectly referred to the television show "Sex and the City" as "Sex in the City." Link  Report an error

Daryush Parsi's support for women's tennis player Aravane Rezai, whom he first saw play at the 2010 U.S. Open, is based on their shared Iranian heritage. An item in the Sept. 1 Open Racket column about fans who seek to become suitors incorrectly included Mr. Parsi, who is married, and incorrectly implied his motivation for [...]

A photo accompanying a Monday World News article about an alleged crackdown by Saudi Arabia on political activists was of Suliman al-Reshoudi, who is being detained by the government and is represented by Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association. In some editions, the caption incorrectly identified the man in the [...]

The Wall Street Journal published this correction yesterday: Two “Agenda” columns by Bill Jamieson, executive editor of the Scotsman, that appeared in The Wall Street Journal Europe and on WSJ.com contained material copied from other sources that Mr. Jamieson failed to credit. A column published July 20 on the European Union’s External Action Service and [...]

Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse said that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments on the Afghanistan war put him “at odds with about 100 percent of the Republican Party.” The quote was incorrectly attributed to conservative commentator William Kristol in a July 3 U.S. News article about Mr. Steele’s remarks. Link  Report an [...]