McCain joins White House race with political spud ads

"There's a Canadian company that wants to see McCain in the White House no matter which of the competing presidential candidates wins in November.A major ad campaign launched this week by the U.S. subsidiary of New Brunswick food titan McCain Foods Ltd. makes the case for...

Tila Tequila AKA Tila Nguyen, Hottest Celebrity On MySpace

"As far as unaccomplished celebrities go, Tila Tequila, the most popular person on MySpace, makes Paris Hilton look like a Nobel laureate. Discovered in a US mall by a Playboy scout eight years ago, Tequila, whose real surname is Nguyen, sits among the new breed of...

'Singh' ban denounced

"For the past decade, Indian immigration applicants with the surname Singh or Kaur were told by the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi that their names, too common to process quickly, would have to be changed.Twenty-four hours after the World Sikh Organization raised the...

Surname Sharing In China Remedied

"Beijing - Due to the current Chinese laws regarding the use of surnames, wherein children are only allowed to take the surname either from their father or mother, Chinese authorities are now considering a new way of taking surnames in order to reduce the number of people...

Darwin's worst nightmare...White Supremacists will love this

"White men with a rare Yorkshire surname have been found to be descended from black African ancestors who came to Britain many centuries ago. A study of Caucasian men who share the same English surname has found that they also share a type of Y chromosome that has previously...

Australian National University Bungles Admissions: Confused by Surname "Smith"

"The case of mistaken identity was the latest administrative bungle for the ANU medical school's 2007 admissions process in which another department prematurely congratulated 80 applicants and retracted the emails hours later. But Ms Smith, 22, who learns tonight whether she...

How a boy's name became slang

"The youngest of eight siblings growing up as part of a working- class family in an upper-class town, the now 36-year-old Mr. Chater considered himself an average teen. But history has offered a slightly different appraisal. In the two decades since his high school years, his...