The lads were talking on Thursday about how Ford is going to emerge from this automotive debacle as a winner, and suggested that Ford cars today are not, um, your father's Ford. I was suspicious, but the lads seemed so

There are many galling aspects of the , but here are the three most egregious:First, by securing the concession by bidding low on the contract (what with having no wage costs and all), the company acted in an anti-competitive fashion,

As a longtime admirer and user of , and someone never-quite-satisfied with the state of my RSS toolset, I was excited to find that Mint author Shaun Inman has a new project, a web-based feedreader called .Fever is an interesting

today -- Research Department in Swedish. It's a here in Malmö that he's a member of. To get there meant walking out of the bourgeois heart of the city into its near-industrial fringe and into a collection of low-rise red

Steven Garrity, who blogs far too little for his own good, .

Oliver has of the wedding we were at last night to his blog. Yes, Oliver has a blog.

Today we joined a gaggle of Malmöians and drove up to the northern tip of Skåne to visit the occasionally putative independent country of . It was a beautiful day: sun shining, temperature around 18 degrees, no bugs, good company.To

When I was a kid I used to go and visit my grandmother in Brantford and she would take me to the public library and we would borrow books in a series that included .I don't remember much about the

Our choice of as the airline to get us to Copenhagen was based entirely on price. Well, that and that it wasn't Air Canada.Things started out well enough: quick check-in, on-time departure, seats together. Our seats were a little cramped,

one of the original P4C gang, has died. Jim and I never lived in the same place at the same time, but our lives overlaid in many places and he was always very nice to me. Thoughts to his brother

Today was my day to go exploring outside of the immediate neighbourhood of our apartment here in Malmö and south into so-called "integrated Malmö," which is to say "interesting Malmö," which is to say "the rich and diverse part Malmö

An Al-Qaeda force fighting alongside Somali extremists against the transitional government has sent ripples through regional capitals.

Last month, several hundred jihadis came to link up with Al Shabaab's latest offensive, and now the Taliban are reportedly flocking to Somalia en masse.

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is Kenya's most dangerous terrorist.

BEYOND THE TERROR THREAT and instability in the region, the other concern that must strengthen the international community's determination to intervene in Somalia is that democracy and fundamentalism cannot mix.

An ammonia leak at a food processing plant has resulted in one wrongful death and four others receiving personal injuries . The workplace death was caused apparently from severe burns . Preliminary reports said that there was a leak in

As an initial compensation for each victim of the recent airplane crash , Air France will pay families about $24,500. So far, Air France has been in touch with about 1800 relatives of the people who died when the airplane

One person has died and six people received personal injuries when a cargo train derailed in Illinois, causing an explosion and a fire. The train in Illinois was carrying chemicals that burned for hours , forcing evacuations of about 600

An erectile dysfunction drug has been recalled for a potentially lethal undeclared ingredient. Federal FDA regulators and the pharma company have issued a recall for all lots of Stamina-Rx. An undeclared substance, benzamidenafil, was found in the product. To read