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What happens when the President-elect is vacationing in your state and suddenly a major electrical outage occurs? Apart from the embarrassment, there's the immediate issue of security. On Friday night in Honolulu, Mother Nature took all of Barack Obama's power as the future First Family was one of 293,000 customers left in the dark by an electric storm that knocked out practically the entire island of Oahu. The $11 million rental property where Obama is staying lost power at 8:08 p.m., prompting a security scramble by Honolulu police, the Secret Service and the U.S. military...
Bush, George W. •pardon given to son of major contributor to Republican party by is taken back the next day by •refusal of thrower of shoe at to ever apologize to, even - as his brother says - "if they cut him into small pieces" •surge in popularity of model of shoe thrown...
...officials to earn fortunes. Transparency International's latest corruption index places Guinea 173 out of 180 countries. Guineans have to bribe officials in order to receive water, electricity, and basic health care, the group said. With policing and the court system in a shambles, Guinea has also become a major hub for Latin American cocaine traffickers, who increasingly use West Africa as the conduit to the lucrative cocaine market in nearby Europe. When TIME visited neighboring Guinea Bissau in 2007, several Colombian cocaine traffickers were operating there, but those traffickers have since moved to Conakry, and several Colombians have recently...
...Some Italian sailors steal Nicholas' remains and transfer them to Bari, Italy. Nicholas likes his new home - well, he doesn't complain - and his tomb becomes a major pilgrimage site...
...passing rulings. Overseas, too, worry swelled about just how deeply China's fragile social compact might be shaken by the experience of economic hard times for the first time in 30 years. The Obama administration should have a contingency plan for "what we would do if there's a major collapse of the political order," Roderick McFarquar of Harvard, one of the world's most respected China scholars, recently told a reporter. (See photos here of China on the wild side...