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Apparently created by a 17-year-old Russian techie bored of his Moscow friends and looking for some foreign excitement, the Internet’s undeniably creepiest creation yet began with nothing but high hopes and good intentions. The premise is bizarre, yet strangely endearing. You simply type in those magical letters, click “Start,” and find yourself suddenly transported to a face-to-face webcam encounter with anyone from lonely middle-aged men to drunken New Zealand rugby players...
After much deliberation, this year’s committee settled on Christiane Amanpour, CNN foreign correspondent and internationally respected journalist. Amanpour is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in addition to being named an honarary citizen of the city of Sarajevo due to her in-depth coverage of the war in Bosnia during the 1990s. She has provided award-winning correspondence from, among other places, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Rwanda and Somalia. “There are many, many rounds of deliberation, but from the beginning she was one of our foremost choices...
After winning the Berlin International Film Festival’s highest prize—the Golden Bear—“The Milk of Sorrow” was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture at this year’s Academy Awards...
...agenda." And according to Spain's El Pais newspaper, agents at the country's National Intelligence Center are investigating whether "attacks by investors and the hostility shown by some sectors of the British and U.S. press" amount to "collusion." "None of what is happening, including editorials in some foreign media with their apocalyptic commentaries, is happening by chance or innocently," Spanish Transport Minister José Blanco declared in a radio interview earlier this month. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...blame is certainly going around. Many conspiracists accuse "foreign hands," more specifically Anglo-Saxons, for the Greek and Spanish crises, arguing that they have always hated the euro and are now using their hedge funds and media operations to bring it down. Some suggest that speculators are attacking the euro to block moves toward tougher European Union regulation of the market. Others, like European Central Bank chief economist Jürgen Stark, suggest people are perpetrating a ruse to hide the U.K.'s budget deficit. "It's astonishing to see where most of the criticism of the euro is coming...