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From the BBC: The foundation of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has expressed outrage after a vial said to have held a sample of his blood was put on sale in an online auction.

The nation of Burma shuffles into its psychologist's office, and plops down heavily in a chair.

"Thanks for seeing me outside our regular appointment," Burma says. "I had a really bad weekend."

"Or a really good one," says the shrink. "The first reasonably free-and-fair election since 1990?"...

With Super Tuesday showing no clear winner yet in the Republican primaries, God has signaled that he may throw his hat in the ring for the nomination at the Republican National Convention.

While former pronouncements from the Almighty have taken the form of burning bushes or stone tablets, God's most...

Have you noticed the whackiness shared by both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Republican Primary candidate Rick Santorum?

Both favor theocratic rule over their respective homelands -- but when they try to live together, hijinks ensue!

Coming soon to a political theater near you!...

President Obama's (non-coordinated) "Priorities USA Action" is the latest Super PAC whose organizers have to used the phrase "unilateral disarmament" to suggest a move they absolutely, positively, can't possibly make, because it's the equivalent of electoral self-destruction given the avalanche of Super PAC ad spending.

Have you...

Are you confused by the amount of cross-the-aisle policy incest going on in the Republican primaries -- and the White House? You're not alone!

Inside what looks like the bar in an airport departures terminal. It's dimly lit, with dark wooden tables and faux leather chairs failing to give the place the touch of class it aspires to. Cigarette smoke wafts through the air.

Nearby, an airport gate which -- despite giving off...

(BBC) Libyan rebels have announced an amnesty for anyone within Col Muammar Gaddafi's "inner circle" who captures or kills him, and a $1.7m (£1m) reward.

Hi. I'm Hacking. Not Hacking Cough. Not Hack's License. Those are common mistakes. I'm just Hacking. My full name, really, is, "Using Illicit Means to Access Private Information With a Computer," but I go by Hacking for short.

I'd like to nominate myself for an award. I dunno --...

Readers of this blog may recall that President Obama takes regular meetings with Mephistopheles -- the representative of the Devil -- to whom the president has promised his immortal soul, as Faust once did. (Please read the first installment here; and the second installment

As the phone hacking scandal consuming Rupert Murdoch's News of the World (NOTW) tabloid continues to extend its tentacles across the British media and political establishment -- forcing the shutdown of a 168 year-old newspaper and threatening the Murdoch's $12 billion takeover of the BSkyB pay channel --...

The international press community was stunned last week to hear of the deaths of Chris Hondros of Getty and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, killed in Misurata while covering fighting between Libyan rebels and Gaddafi's forces.

They have been eulogized -- and rightly so -- as embodying one of...

As close readers of this blog might recall, last summer President Obama took a meeting with Mephistopheles - the representative of the Devil - for on-going negotiations about the terms of exchange for the president's immortal soul. Please read it here.

As widely reported, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is not only defiantly refusing to step down, but he is a tribute to defiance itself.

(Doha, Qatar) - In the latest twist to the wave of protests spreading across the Middle East, demonstrators have overthrown the Al Jazeera television network.

"Really, we want to overthrow the Emir, but everyone knows you can't stage a decent takeover without taking control of state-owned media,"...

Since the Tunisian and Egyptian democracy uprisings, there's little doubt that Middle Eastern leaders have been scrambling. From Damascus to Tripoli, many are scratching their heads, wondering, Exactly how much political reform does it take to make myself look genuinely committed to the democratic process, while maintaining a firm hold...

If Hosni Mubarak were logging into Craiglist these days, it might look something like this.

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You've lived for under decades of autocratic rule and you're sick of it. You may be sick of the endemic corruption in official-dom, while the government does little to innovate the economy and improve your standard of living. You may be an ethnic or religious minority that's always been shortchanged...

I've got a litmus test for whether a film or television show focusing on aid-workers, journalists or policy wonks is going to be a worthy representation about working on the frontlines of the developing world.

It's the phrase, "Children are dying!" If you hear that one, then you know...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after...