Headlines from May 18, 2007

At the Tour de France doping hearing, the defense threatens to reveal the star witness's childhood molestation.
It was a grayer Blair and a silver-maned Bush who walked from the Oval Office yesterday. Even the Rose Garden appeared uncharacteristically worn. The Post's world leader fanfic.
The World Bank needs a new president, Tony Blair is looking for work... wait a minute.
Op: Have the Republican presidential candidates been watching too much 24?
Scarier than out-of-control thunderstorms: thunderstorms that shut down the meltdown warning systems at nuclear power plants.
Extreme sports ignite un-extreme towns.
Erik Bryan, today's Non-Expert, satisfies a reader's jock itch.
The loss of an Australian soap: Brits dab tears, Americans scratch heads.
Video: Calvin & Hobbes, animated, in Italian.
Tree marriages: the next front in combating global warming?
Topless woman fires shotgun at cropduster. (Safe for work, unless you're a cropduster.)
Holding her toddler under one arm, World's Greatest Mom beats back shark attack.
Eight-year-old uncovers text in Iraq Word docs with "tracking changes" activated.
Senate passes major immigration reform that could offer millions of illegal immigrants legal status, Bush applauds.
House members, however, doubt the bill's survival through the summer, citing potential privacy issues, economic strain.
[He] "couldn't run a two-car funeral." Wolfowitz resigns from the World Bank.
Wolf Bank fashion: Employees wore ribbons in shared ire toward their boss; remembering Wolfowitz's socks.
Israel is only too happy to grant U.S.-trained Fatah troops passage into Gaza.
Gun nuts in Virginia hold a "Bloomberg Gun Giveaway"; parents of Va. Tech victims protest.
Disappearance of two Mexican TV reporters, now missing for a week, may be linked to drug cartels' media terrorization.
Op: Mexico's drug problem is our drug problem, and we have to be serious about giving aid.
Taste panels tell us how much sweeter Splenda is than sugar. (It's 600 times sweeter.)
Scientists recommend capture, breeding of remaining spotted owls.
Photos from the life of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
Op: U.S. feminism does nothing to help the global suffering of women.
At Cannes, the much-anticipated Joy Division movie premieres to wide acclaim.
Are you going out of your way to annoy the right? An interview with Michael Moore on his movie about the healthcare system, Sicko.
Per person, Americans spend more on healthcare than anyone else, yet their life expectancy ranks 45th in the world.
Video: Fun, danger with ladder racing.