Nigeria: My Stardom Killed My Mom (AllAfrica.com)
How long has the train been gone? Ask Afro-Juju musician, Sir Shina Isaac Peters....more...Russell Brand on sexual addiction (Guardian Unlimited)
In the first of three extracts from his autobiography, Russell Brand: talks about the sexual addiction that threatened his career...more... Multi-million EU push to police West Bank (Middle East Online)
EUPOL COPPS will advise, train, equip Palestinian police in bid to help them impose order in West Bank....more... Stay-at-home dads find fulfillment, but take hit to careers (The Wichita Eagle)
For years, the stay-at-home dad has been treated as a cultural oddity, an ill-at-ease comic hero who can't wait to don pinstripes again and get back to the office. Interviews with men who stayed home with their children for several years, and are now looking back on it, paint a different picture. While much attention has been paid to at-home mothers who opt out of the corporate rat race for ......more... Multi-million EU push to police the West Bank (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Behind the wheel of his four-by-four in Bethlehem, retired Scotland Yard counter-terrorism expert Colin Smith twiddles his thumbs as he and five European advisers sit and wait. The Palestinian police forgot they were coming....more... Injured veterans face new war at home (Galveston County Daily News)
Marine Lt. Chris Ayres lay limp on an Islamic prayer cloth, shivering and struggling to breathe. His men had just pried him out of an armored vehicle engulfed in flames, the engine ignited by the rocket-propelled grenade that blew through his leg....more... FOX411: Britney's Over, Here Comes Alicia vs. Celine (Fox News)
Tuesday was the day Britney Spears' ?Blackout? album was supposed to have been released. Remember ?Blackout?? It was so two weeks ago! The CD is No. 30 right now on Amazon.com and falling fast off the charts....more... Vets compare homecomings then and now (Evansville Courier & Press)
When soldiers from the 163rd Field Artillery came home last year from Iraq, hundreds of cheering people lined highways to welcome back the 155 men and women from the Evansville-based National Guard unit....more... Chefs' high hopes, low pay leave S.F. restaurants starved for help (San Francisco Chronicle)
When Mourad Lahlou has an opening for a line cook at his San Francisco restaurant, Aziza, he gets plenty of resumes. But most of them are from recent cooking school graduates who don't have the moxie to survive on the hot line at one of San Francisco's... ...more... |