Forget "Asian fusion" cuisine. The Asia Times takes a look at what you could be eating at restaurants throughout Asia in 2005.

First the US wanted a council, now it wants a new council for Iraq. Will George Bush ever make up his mind?

Who wants to be First Lady of the United States? We know reality-show antics have taken over politics (example: Schwarzenegger), but I think celebrity matchmaking and politics is a new combination.

Yet more evidence of the Bush administration's total junking of human rights: sending terror suspects off to foreign countries so they can be tortured.