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This was written before the Iraq War. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Patriots are those who love America enough to wish to see her as a model to mankind," said Adlai Stevenson, who ran for and lost the presidency twice, and served as our...

Activists aren’t convinced energy benefits outweigh risks CHALON-SUR-SAONE, France - At a factory nestled among Burgundy vineyards, workers shape, bore, polish and test pieces needed to put together a nuclear reactor. At each work station, technical charts are pasted next to a map of the...

Dutch Muslim wins right to refuse handshake Commission says woman was wrongly barred from school over religious rule AMSTERDAM - A Dutch school was wrong to bar a Muslim woman from its classes for refusing to shake hands with men, the Commission for Equal Treatment found on Monday. The adult...

Indian man ‘divorces’ wife in his sleep Local Islamic leaders tell couple to separate after sleep-talking incident NEW DELHI - A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders to separate after the husband “divorced” his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported...

Heated argument ends with man on fire Indian husband sets self ablaze after wife refuses to cook meat for dinner AHMEDABAD, India - A jobless man burned himself to death after his wife refused to serve him meat for dinner, Indian police said Sunday. Sixty-year-old Mithailal Ram Sanjivan doused...

The family of a World War I soldier shot for cowardice are to ask the High Court to overturn a government decision refusing to pardon him posthumously. In February, Defence Secretary John Reid upheld earlier decisions turning down the request to pardon Private Harry Farr, of Kensington...

AMONTH AGO President Bush called for doubling the peacekeeping force in the Sudanese region of Darfur and expanding the role of NATO countries in bolstering it. Since then, the case for intervention has only grown stronger: There have been fresh reports of death-squad attacks on civilians in...

Saturday, March 25, 2006; Page A18 SIXTY-ONE YEARS ago this spring, the Allies liberated the German concentration camps. Sixty-one years is a long time -- so long that few European leaders have personal experience of the war. Why, then, are the German government and the International Red Cross...

By Jim Hoagland Sunday, March 26, 2006; Page B07 Hoping to lower tensions between the Muslim world and the West, British Prime Minister Tony Blair maintained the other day that the world confronts "a clash about civilization," not "a clash between civilizations." But the overriding lesson of...

By Frances Yoon SEOUL (Reuters) - It's not every day that a jazz-inspired pianist has to make a life or death decision about his art, and it is not every day a gifted musician flees North Korea. Kim Cheol-woong, 31, was a North Korean prodigy who was trained in classical music and destined to...

Forget the spirit of 1789 — France has lost the ability to adapt to a changing world By JACQUES MARSEILLE It's all going to blow up." this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France — where the word consensus is not...

Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what...

Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, the United States foreign policy is the subject of anguished debate. Post 9/11 the US decided the only way to stop more terrorist attacks was to fight a pre-emptive war. That Bush doctrine is under increasing attack at home and abroad. The...

U.S. plans moon base on path to Mars Despite lack of fanfare, scientists work on technological hurdles HOUSTON - For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to fly to the moon, but instead of a quick, Apollo-like visit, astronauts intend to build a permanent base and live...

FORDLAND, Mo. (AP) — High school senior Matt Suter has already survived being blown more than 1,300 feet by a tornado. Now he's caught up in the whirlwind of media attention. The 19-year-old from southwest Missouri appeared Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" and is also being courted by...

8O A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars...

Mandatory minimum sentences likely to face Charter challenge, MPs say Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, March 26, 2006 The federal opposition is sending signals it will block Conservative plans to impose automatic jail terms for a variety of gun-related crimes unless the...

Re: RE: Prezza hates foreign Mmmm... the hell with breakfast, I eat that anytime of day. :D

This thread is hilarious, posters arguing over which food is better or worse. It's like saying the cheeseburger is an American food, despite the fact it is probably eaten in every corner of the globe. The only way you will be able to indentify the type of food in various countries (I mean...

When Niger's president last year accused aid agencies of exaggerating his country's food crisis for their own gain, Western media reacted with shock. How dare he bite the hand that feeds his people, commentators asked. Many suggested the president was making excuses for the failings of his own...