While the Democrat Leadership is reinventing a device to detect wind direction, the Conservative Tsunami will sweep them into the Abyss of Obscurity. The sooner the better. Why have they been so wrong for so long?

It always interests Aussies when people try to report Australian events, and the 2007 election was no exception. The common reaction was “Bush ally defeated”, with varying levels of depth. Actually, the tone of some of the reporting was very positive.

New York City is on pace to record fewer than 500 homicides in 2007, a new low. This disputes the reputation of the Big Apple as a place where random acts of violence occur on a daily basis.

Termites are serial offenders, ecologically. They eat people’s homes, generate methane, adding to greenhouse gases, and they’re one of the most successful forms of life on Earth. Now, they’re in trouble. Someone’s found a use for their guts.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is expected to lose the coming elections, but it seems his house is also going to be lost. His home was offered for sale in an auction as an election prank.

A shipment of Christmas trees that were sent to Honolulu were infested with yellow jackets. The shipment from the Pacific Northwest contained about 1200 trees all infested with the buzzing wasps.

A recent scientific breakthrough may finally be able to break through the current resistance to sorely needed stem cell research. Scientists have found a way to create stem cells from human skin.

The British government has lost the banking data of 25 million of its citizens in the mail. These data were important for the payment of child benefits. This was made public by the Finance Minister.

They were planning to start a new life in a new country but Rowan Trezise, age 33, has been told by the government of New Zealand that she and her husband may have to look elsewhere for a place to live, because she is too fat to be allowed into the county

A German man filled up his car, paid for the gasoline, but he forgot to take his car back home. The police found the owner of the car from the records and contacted him to get the it back.

Jeff Jarvis recently wrote a description of what he thinks the quintessential 21st Century editor is like, by telling his audience all about recruitment ads of some renowned newspapers.

New York Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit, accusing the court system in Schuyler County of violating the state constitution and the Sixth Amendment, when it comes to the right of having a court-appointed lawyer.

Say the world was under threat from an asteroid, and the guy from NASA says “Well, we don’t really have the budget…” At the moment, they’re talking about a budget for detecting asteroids, not a budget for doing anything about them.

Chinese officials are denying state media reports indicating the country plans to launch a space station by 2020. The China Daily newspaper reported the country's planned space station would be "a small-scale, 20-ton space workshop."

One of the most common causes of premature birth has been remedied. UK scientists say they developed a new technique that uses X-rays to examine tiny structures in amniotic membrane which surrounds a developing baby.

The US tops the Harvard´s 2007 'State of the Region Report about Global Competition' list of most competitive countries. The list is dominated by Scandinavian and North European countries. The report analyses of their combined strengths.

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain has been named one of the 50 "most glamorous women" in the world by Vogue magazine, alongside big names in fashion such as Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer.

Pakistani authorities Sunday swooped on opposition leaders and rights' activists in a bid to contain public resistance to emergency rule declared by President Pervez Musharraf a day earlier to pre-empt any judicial onslaught on his authority.

Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran vowed to fight on after suffering the biggest loss in the 25-year armed struggle to carve out the north and eastern parts of the country as an independent homeland for minority Tamils.

A recently launched website combines an addictive intellectual game with feeding the poor and is already popular among finance executives. The site donates 10 grains of rice for each right answer to the United Nations World Food Program.