the new US embassy in baghdad, wil be the largest US embassy in the world. good thing we're spending $592 million on it, not like Iraqis need food, water, electricity, education...

Quoted: The 104-acre complex — the size of about 80 football fields — will include two office buildings, one of them designed for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a food court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants. The average Baghdad home has electricity only four hours a day, according to Bowen's office.

Quoted: A dental surgeon in Harare describes how he keeps his private practice going despite hyperinflation and within a health service that some feel is near collapse.

wow, this is intense.

Quoted: Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they ...

i would be nervous if i were the pope, Turkey is where the last pope got shot

Quoted: Thousands of Muslims protest in Istanbul against Pope Benedict XVI's forthcoming visit to Turkey.

ahh, this definately needs to be clarified asap

Quoted: The father of the Malawian boy adopted by Madonna says he did not know he had to give up his son "for good".

Quoted: President Chirac orders an inquiry into a leaked French intelligence memo claiming Osama Bin Laden had died.

this is strange

Quoted: Duncan Bartlett visits a monument in the north of Japan which legend has it is the final resting place of Jesus Christ.

well that was short lived...

Quoted: Kofi Annan calls Israel's commando raid on Lebanon a truce violation and expresses deep concern.

so effed up

Quoted: The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which some military officers see as a sign of a longer campaign ahead.