They’re both displaced Brits. They’ve been friends for years. And now they have their own news and opinion websites, one doing very well, the other starting up but making noise.

No other foreign leader appreciated the importance of connections more than the late Benazir Bhutto.

The Pakistani opposition leader, assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, made regular trips to Washington, paid the D.C. lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller hundreds of thousands of dollars, and cultivated a long list of friends among American journalists and politicians.

If a robotic rover soon cavorts on the surface of the moon, you can trace its genesis to a gala fundraiser held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., last March.

Hosted by Google co-founder Larry Page, the event raised $2.7 million for the X Prize Foundation. Page is a trustee.

Attendees included Tipper Gore, Sir Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington and Robin Williams. The actor/comedian, whose roles have included a space alien as well as a short-term president-elect of the United States, brought down the house with an impromptu routine.