Coming soon to a plane near you... Ad space!

"Coming soon to the airline boarding pass clutched in your hot little hand: advertisements.Printing advertisements on the boarding pass is part of airlines’ continuing frantic search for new sources of revenue to offset higher fuel prices. Here’s betting it will be less...

Arab states slap `regulations` on satellite channels

"Arab countries, at the initiative of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday adopted a document which imposes "regulations" on Arab satellite television and bars offending their regimes. Over the opposition solely of Qatar, the home of Al-Jazeera, information ministers of the...

Fury Over Govan Taliban On Benefits

"FAMILIES of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are furious that a former Taliban fighter is seeking asylum in Scotland. The Record revealed yesterday how ex-jihad front-liner Muhammad Hanif Hanifi has settled in Glasgow and wants to stay here. Bobby Wright, of Edinburgh - whose...

Foot and mouth contained, claims British PM

Everyone who was involved in containing this deserves a pat on the back! Great News!"Foot and mouth contained, claims British PM ADRIAN CROFT Reuters August 10, 2007 at 10:55 AM EDT LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown reassured farmers on Friday that an outbreak of foot...

Dangers of a Cornered George Bush

"The “new” strategy of surging troops in Baghdad has simply wasted more lives and bought some time for the president. His strategy boils down to keeping as many of our soldiers engaged as possible, in order to stave off definitive defeat in Iraq before January 2009. Bush...

Land of the free, home of the War on Terrorism

""They told us this was one of the world's worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver," said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain with a US military court...

Nanny Hunt Can Be a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Blacks

"As more blacks move up the economic ladder, one fixture — some would say necessity — of the upper-middle-class income bracket often eludes them. Like hailing a cab in Midtown Manhattan, searching for a nanny can be an exasperating, humiliating exercise for many blacks,...

Nanny Hunt Can Be a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Blacks

As more blacks move up the economic ladder, one fixture — some would say necessity — of the upper-middle-class income bracket often eludes them. Like hailing a cab in Midtown Manhattan, searching for a nanny can be an exasperating, humiliating exercise for many blacks,...