- The White House will have its own vegetable garden.
- The long feud between France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and former Justice Minister Rachida Dati appears to be over.
- President George Bush’s memoirs will be available in 2010. Bush said, “I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made.”
- Russia announced that it is banning the hunting of baby seals.
- Georgia’s Governor Sonny Perdue said that Barack Obama’s showing in the 2008 Presidential election means that Georgia shouldn’t be under the jurisdiction of the Voting Rights Act.
- Hugo Chavez is readying his “diplomatic artillery” for next month’s Summit of the Americas. It is likely to be the first encounter between Chavez and Barack Obama.
- Diplomats are part of the Afghan surge.
- The Vatican defended the Pope’s condemnation of condoms by declaring that he was “maintaining the position of his predecessors.”
- Two U.S. journalists have been detained by North Korea.
- Kuwait’s emir has dissolved parliament, accusing some lawmakers of abusing democracy.
- It appears that President Barack Obama is backsliding on a campaign promise. For fear of offending Turkey, He has delayed a Presidential statement designating the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide.
- Italy’s left has found a leader to confront Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- If HR875 passes, some believe it will be the end of organic farming.
- Guadalajara, Mexico has Mexico’s first openly gay mayoral candidate.
- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood denied that he said Illinois’ workers had an “awful” work ethic.
- UK’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a little problem with the DVD’s Barack Obama gave him as a gift. They only play on DVD players made in North America.
