Libya's oil minister crossed into Tunisia last night, becoming the highest-level official to defect in a month. Emerging economies--with China, Brazil, and Turkey in the lead--eye the now-open top IMF job. After nearly a decade of losing value against every other currency, the dollar
Roseanne: Charlie Sheen was the world's most famous john, and a sitcom was written around him. Three weeks ago, IMF chief Strauss-Kahn imagined a woman inventing a rape story about him for money. Ben Stein: It's unlikely that Strauss-Kahn is guilty of rape because
In LA, hybrid vehicle drivers won't be allowed to drive solo in carpool lanes after July 1. New York's six Lexus hybrid cabs don't outearn their Crown Vic counterparts, and their drivers don't care. First the crabs find you, then maybe a
Berlusconi and berlusconismo take drubbing in local elections in Italy, where tide of aversion rises. Prison allows Chinese inmates to reduce sentences by doing Communist cultural activities. No djoke: Djokovic's domination of tennis attributed to gluten-free diet. Sam Anderson: Eat, Pray, Love is avant-garde, "a
Diplomats spar over newly available petroleum rights, shipping lanes in a rapidly melting Arctic. What the IMF sexual assault accusation means for France's presidential elections. "It's Lincoln meets Reagan with a smidge of Harding." For whatever reason, we can't stop comparing Obama
Smoke the Iraqi donkey wins green card lottery. Azerbaijan, nominally in Europe, wins Eurovision. Balance of power in Libya shifting toward rebels, but war looks to go long--meanwhile, 60-day deadline looms for White House. George Mitchell resigns as chief Middle East envoy; surprise is why he didn'
Pakistani Taliban kills 80, most of them newly trained cadets leaving paramilitary academy. File under "inevitable"--the Taliban gets on Twitter. Good op-ed about America pressing Pakistan by Zakaria ends with remarkably vapid last line. McCain: Torture did not give us bin Laden; in fact, waterboarding Khalid
Galleon Group founder, mega-bajillionaire Raj Rajaratnam convicted of insider trading. Pentagon considering family visits for Guantanamo detainees. Conservative estimate says 48 women and girls are raped every hour in DR Congo, "one of the great human crises of our time." Former Peace Corps volunteers speak out against
Bin Laden data reveal a terror kingpin active in new plots, including 9/11-scale attacks in smaller cities across the U.S. DA files suit to overturn Schwarzenegger commutation, since he didn't contact the victims first. As governor, Mitt Romney ushered in statewide health coverage; as GOP
Ten years ago, Bush and Musharraf made a deal: U.S. could raid, Pakistan would protest afterward. Hitchens on voice in writing and speech now that he has lost his own. What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? Technocrats who seemed golden in winter
