Day April 5, 2005

Make that a gay communist victory In Italy’s regional elections, for which voting was held yesterday and today, Silvio Berlusconi’s governing coalition has apparently suffered a huge defeat. The elections brought more good news: in the region of Puglia, in…

Bush approval worst of second termers. President Bush’s approval rating “has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term,” Gallup reports.

A rift among national power brokers threatens the country with disintegration that could have even more violent consequences than the collapse of the Soviet Union had, Kremlin chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev warned in a wide-ranging interview published Monday. “If…

Two more suspected insurgents have been reported killed in clashes with Saudi security forces that have raged for the third straight day, bringing the total toll among the insurgents to nine. A quick news scan shows this story only on…

“Here” being Eugene, Oregon. But hey, if you can make a buck off it, then who cares! ‘Let’s profit from global warming with better grassland use’ Global warming has arrived – but one of Wales’ leading livestock producers says farmers…