Pakistan’s city of flowers becomes city of barricades

Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province that was once known as the city of flowers, has virtually turned into a city of barricades because of the unabating unrest in the adjoining tribal areas. "A notice displayed at one of the gates of Qayyum...

Brits choosing food over flowers for the first time since WWII

There are times when I really think that this whole wisdom of crowds thing is for real.  This is one of those examples.  Given the problems we are already seeing with the rise in fuel and the resulting rise in food prices it is refreshing to see people reacting in,...

Suspect Confesses to Killing Lil Kim Partygoer

"All didn't end well at Lil Kim's 34th birthday party. An employee at a New York karaoke bar where a B-day blowout for the rapper was held Sunday night has been arrested after confessing that he beat a 24-year-old woman to death on the roof of the club while the party was...