Now that he has been arrested and charged with corruption, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (at right) is a favourite son of Serbia no longer.
Serbs used to be proud of Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois governor now being charged with trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat.
He was the epitome of the immigrant success story: the son of [...]

Heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seats have recently become trendy, but doctors have noticed that such seats can fall down and injure penises of male toddlers. Ouch!
Writing in the December issue of BJU International, Dr Joe Philip and his colleagues at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, report on four boys under the age of four, who [...]

In Australia, as in Canada, “liberals”, far more than conservatives, promote restrictions on free expression and the free flow of information.
The Australian left isn’t saying much about it, so it falls to the libertarians at Britain’s spiked to spread the news: The proposed scheme to impose compulsory filtering on Australia’s internet originated with “progressive” Clive [...]

Sabatina James (at right), a 26-year-old Pakistani-born Austrian, has been living in fear for her life since converting from Islam to Christianity a few years ago. Her father stabbed her when she formed a relationship with a Christian and vowed to kill her for apostasy.
Austrian authorities initially encouraged her to revert to Islam to [...]

Fountains of Wayne has been one my favourite bands since their brilliant 1999 release Utopia Parkway. Such gems as “Denise” and “Red Dragon Tattoo” irresistibly combined sardonic and witty lyrics with crunching power pop chords. The band finally achieved popular success in 2003 with “Stacy’s Mom” (from Welcome Interstate Managers) and the ubiquitous music [...]

Among the casualties of the global economic slowdown and the attendant oil crash is the theory of peak oil, which stated that the world was about to run out of oil altogether and that its price would therefore continue to rise into the stratosphere. Reality bites again.
The Financial Post’s Terence Corcoran reports.
As it turns [...]