* The past 10 years have seen fewer war deaths than any decade in the last 100 years. * Al Jazeera live blogs Mubarak's trial. * Whether Kenya's famine could have been avoided. * About one year ago, $5.6 billion was pledged to relief in Haiti; one-third has
Life is a river, man, you never know where it’s going to take you.
* Holding elections and building commerce, shadow nations threaten to destabilize their neighbors. * Next big UN assembly announcement to come from Russia, which plans to annex 380,000 square miles of the Arctic Ocean. * After years of looking for cancer clues in 2% of the genome, researchers find the rest holds
* China pours billions into Africa, and billions go straight into private pockets. * Warren Buffett: Thank you, Congress, for all the tax breaks, but we super rich are sick of lower job creation. * Historian known for making dumb remarks on TV blames London riots on English whites going Jamaican black. * Elif
Explicit content: Please note that many of these links and videos are not safe for work, minors, and those with delicate moral constitutions. My dad is an OB/GYN, and when I was growing up, this meant all my friends thought I must therefore have some secret insider knowledge about
* What it's like to lose to Rick Perry. * Herman Cain is a fan of Pokemon: The Movie 2000—or its inspirational theme music. * Rembrandt drawing swiped in a "carefully planned heist" at a Marina del Rey Ritz-Carlton. * Legal analysis of the case against a New
Manmade light is normally considered pollution before it's thought of as beautiful. A series of luscious portraits of Earth’s brightest hotspots.
* Blatant hypocrisy of Western censorship on web is ruinous to promoting democracy abroad. * Bay Area Rapid Transit "pulls an Egypt," turns off cell service to preempt protest. * Xinhua news agency delights in reporting on Cameron's (improbable) plans to censor the web. * Once the looters had left
* Vacationing Times-Picayune reporter busts Zabar's for selling crawfish as lobster salad. * How Roy Scherer became Rock Hudson and changed a generation's view of sexuality, twice. * Water bottlers find success targeting minorities. * Homeowners seeking originality plant bottle trees, the "modern pink flamingo." * Amazon.co.
My wife and I are vacationing at my family’s house on the Pamlico River near Bath, North Carolina, a coastal farming town of several hundred people, where Blackbeard supposedly anchored ship on a regular basis and buried treasures. It takes a dirt road to make it to our house.
