The American Debate:Tea'd off can the ire turn into a real party?.

They spoke to me about the downfall of America, with fear burning in their eyes. It was vintage "tea party" talk, the kind of stuff we're hearing every day.

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In Paris the customer is not always right.

The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted.

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A very American coup.

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. The wars in distant lands were always going to come home, but not this way.

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Paul Begala: Please pass the Senate health bill.

In an op-ed several months ago, I advised my fellow progressive Democrats to support health care reform even if it fails to include some of their cherished goals. Now I'm begging.

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Team official forsee,s success for pro soccer in Phili.

At the Major League Soccer draft this month, there was a lot of talk about how the expansion Philadelphia Union had sold 9,000 season tickets, and some of the conversation went like this:

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Taiwan MP,s duke it out in parliament.

It's been two years since Taiwan's MPs, notorious for their regular fights, swore to improve their reputation and stop getting into mass brawls in parliament. That resolution was going very well - until yesterday, when they decided to have a huge punch-up again.

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Govenors Rendells mission to resuce 53 Hatian orphans is critcised by CCN anchor.

During his CNN broadcast from Port-au-Prince on Monday night, anchor Anderson Cooper implied that the overwhelming task of helping Haiti's victims might be being compromised by ad-hoc rescue missions launched through political channels.

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Americans leading man was once a pinup for Cosmo.

As voters in Massachusetts flooded polling centres yesterday to choose a successor to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, there was one image of the Republican runner, Scott Brown, that may or may not have been in their minds: half prone and naked with only a carefully placed hand hidi …

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Woods in clean up bid ready for return.

Tiger Woods is believed to be undergoing treatment at a Mississippi rehabilitation centre in a bid to clean up his troubled life, with a return to professional golf expected within weeks.

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Why does God allow natural disaster,s.

At the heart of Haiti's humanitarian crisis is an age old question for many religious people - how can God allow such terrible things to happen? Philosopher David Bain examines the arguments.

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Debate:Are the English becoming bigger drunks than the rest of Europe.

"Like the myth that the English have always been drunk, the contrast between English drunkenness and civilised Mediterranean habits may also be something of a myth," the MPs report.

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Woman looses temper over McDonald burger

In the second incident of McDonald's Rage in recent weeks, police are hunting a woman who went on the rampage at a McDonald's in Kansas City because she didn't like her hamburger.

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Matt Groeing:20 years of Homer etc.

Twenty years ago, Matt Groening drew his first Simpsons cartoon; today, he sits atop a beloved, billion-dollar industry. He talks to John Preston about the debt he owes his (original) family

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Bands that are under the radar.

'Tis the season to be tipping new artists, and next week the BBC Sound of 2010 list will showcase emerging acts. But which albums from the past year flew under the mainstream radar and also deserve to be discovered by the wider world in 2010?

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War on Chocolate milk.

It would sound like a joke if everyone weren't so up in arms about it. Taking a stand against chocolate milk? It's like canceling Christmas. What could possibly be wrong with something that brings children such joy?

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Five minutes with Michael Palin

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Gun crime galor and no convictions

Just 23 years old, John Gassew has been arrested 44 times, mostly on charges of sticking a gun in people's faces and robbing them. But in the eyes of the law, Gassew isn't an armed robber. He's never been convicted.

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Suttering.

Stuttering is not uncommon in children between the ages of 2 and 5. For many children, it's simply part of learning to use language and putting words together to form sentences. It may come and go, and it may last for a few weeks or for a couple of years.

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Bath my kind of town

Head to Bath for the perfect combination of city life and beautiful surroundings, says the novelist Sarah Duncan.

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Man dressed up as mother to steal from bank | Metro.co.uk

A New Jersey man allegedly dressed up as his mother in an ill-thought-through attempt to withdraw money from her bank account.

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Steel from PA 9/11 site goes into Navy ship.

Abandoned in a Western Pennsylvania field since the mid-1990s, a pair of towering, rusted cranes bore silent witness to a national tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001, as United Flight 93 plunged into the earth just a few hundred yards away.

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Crulety is never true love.

As strong new-millennium women and men, we've become leaders politically, economically, athletically and socially. But one area remains where we too often act as followers: romance.

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Amada Knox prosecutors in Italy hit back at critics.

"[The Americans] are saying there's not enough proof to convict these two kids, but how is it possible to argue that? The evidence was scrutinised by 19 judges." Lawyers for Knox and Sollecito are already beginning to prepare their appeals against the verdict.

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Goats nature,s weed eater,s

And so the jokes, then serious talk, turned to goats, nature's weed-eaters, for whom a 15-acre field knotted with Canada thistle, mugwort, and vetch isn't a problem at all.

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