UK News from Times Online:
After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour quangocrat, received a text message from her mentor, Jose Manuel Barroso, the chairman of the European commission. (Read More)
The Age World Headlines:
The European Union may have inched out of its sharpest recession since the global slump of the 1930s, but green shoots are not emerging uniformly across the 27-nation bloc's eastern member states. (Read More)
The Age World Headlines:
Europe's first president, Herman Van Rompuy, is to join forces with the European Commission to push for sweeping new tax-raising powers for Brussels. (Read More)
Gawker:
Oh, Tucker Max: he gave sleazy Encyclopedia Brotanica-eque website AskMen.com an interview. Given the chance to speak freely, he starts his egomanical blame game all over again. This time, blame: Middle America, The Man, His Artistry, and His Producers. Awesome! Yeah. He went there. He starts opining about how he wishes he (Read More)
Gawker:
The Harvard-Yale game's a storied tradition for Ivy League grads who enjoy comparing degree sizes/names. For everyone else, it's an opportunity to watch America's Prestigious Ivy Grads try to act like normal football fans, which they can't. So: what happened?! First of all, the only people besides Harvard-Yale grads who hav (Read More)
L.A. Times - Europe:
Some in the former Soviet satellite now part of NATO and the EU warn that Moscow is intent on reasserting influence, but others see Russia as a useful investor and lucrative market. There's a museum in Budapest called the House of Terror. (Read More)
The Age World Headlines:
Romanians voted on Sunday in a tight presidential election seen as a chance to resolve a political crisis that has hindered the recent EU member's bid to recover from a deep recession. (Read More)
NY Post:
For preschoolers, having a play date with the gang from TV’s “Yo Gabba Gabba!” is on par with their parents having cocktails with the cast of “Mad Men.”
Nickelodeon’s trippy show uses a retro style and beat-driven music to teach simple life lessons. ... (Read More)
The Sydney Morning Herald World Headlines:
Incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy kept a low profile as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage. (Read More)
Talking Points Memo:
Meet right-wing rapper (aka, "conservative hip-hop artist") Hi Caliber, the toast of the Tea Party circuit who recently appeared in the FreedomWorks-produced video "Patriotic People."
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Financial Times:
Michel Barnier, former French foreign minister, is set to be put in charge of the EU’s single market, in a contentious move that followed a night of political horse-trading over top jobs in Brussels. (Read More)
The Age World Headlines:
The European Medicines Agency announced that five million people in the European Union have been vaccinated against swine flu. (Read More)