French at odds over putting poor into top schools

France is facing a dilemma: Should the government force its most prestigious schools, those that produce presidents, prime ministers and CEOs, to be less elitist about the students they let in? Complete Story...

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Nigeria's big spenders make a flamboyant splash

The waiter at Caliente bar sticks a sparkler into yet another bottle of champagne and hits a siren mounted behind the bar to draw everyone's attention to the sleek Nigerian businessmen who ordered it.

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Honduran coup shows business elite still in charge

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power.

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Elite Iraqi troops in forefront after US pullback

As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver is an elite, American-trained force with a reputation that leads many Iraqis to call it "the dirty brigade."

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Key figures in Iran's ruling circles

Some of the influential clerics and political figures in Iran's ruling Islamic establishment that serve below Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Some serve on more than one of the panels.

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Demand for elite forces growing fast

As the U.S. and its allies pressure insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, there will be a greater need for intelligence in North Africa where extremists seek sanctuary, the military's top special operations commander told Congress on Thursday.

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Giants and Titans not so elite

Eli Manning says he's not concerned. He should be.

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Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food

While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.

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AP: 'Lob bombs' biggest worry for US in Baghdad

U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday in an Associated Press interview.

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Top US commando says strain of war limits forces elsewhere

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are making such heavy use of the nation's Green Berets and other elite warriors that they cannot fulfill their roles in other parts of the world, the military's top commando told The Associated Press.

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In an effort to defend himself against his critics, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke spent over 2 hours at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta trying to prove that low interest rates were not the main cause of the housing bubble.

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Across Pakistan's history a number of politicians, lawyers, journalists, student leaders and party workers have bravely wrestled with the establishment's civil, military and economic arms.

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Health care reform is dead on arrival There will be even less room at the inn for those in true need who lack the right insurance or enough cash to pay the bill. Why should anyone be surprised? Health care costs are rising by 10% to 15% already. We're committed to endless war.

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Please tell me I'm dreaming!

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underemployed and drowning in loans

should I be thankful this year?

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"Bonus" has become a dirty word on Wall Street, prompting image consultants to advise the biggest financial firms to use euphemisms that carry less stigma as the season of lavish payouts approaches.

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A GROUP of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''.

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WisdomTree Trust has registered with the SEC a new exchange-traded fund that seeks to give investors long-term returns above the rate of inflation.

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Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Robert S. Kaplan, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner who now teaches management at Harvard Business School, predicted that public anger at Wall Street will continue to grow as joblessness gets worse.

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More than one hundred innocent Pakistanis killed in one day, more than two hundred in less than a month. Attacks linked to our own and America's failed Afghan policy. Attacks supported by anti-Pakistan forces in the region and not just unknown 'extremists'.

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Street battles are continuing to rage late into the night of September 23 in the poor neighborhoods of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, after a day marked by a brutal military and police attack on a massive demonstration in support of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

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A summary of recent events this past August which demonstrate that the global elite have some nefarious agenda in store for the rest of us.

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We're obviously hungry to live with royal and aristocratic families so we should really just go ahead and formally declare it

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Return to stability: Pelini following Devaney, Osborne model BY STEVEN M. SIPPLE / Lincoln Journal Star However, as it turns out, Bob Devaney was the best choice.

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With the Huskers set to throw on the throwback jerseys this season, we thought about all that's changed in the game of college football since the decade of the 1960s. Offenses. Defenses.

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The newly discounted Elite, which packs a 120 GB hard drive, will replace the company's standard 60 GB Xbox 360 Pro model, which itself will enjoy a $50 price cut (to $249) while supplies last.

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My Monday is pretty much planned out. Aside from a natural disaster or other altering event, assuredly my Monday will be much better than these 5,000 UBS offshore banking customers. Hopefully there's enough to cover back tax in each.

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In 1951, Denmark's government approved a social experiment where 22 children were taken from their homes in Greenland and moved to Denmark where they were immersed in Danish language and culture.

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"Remember, the elite are just a few among the six billion people on this planet. The entire source of their power is their ability to corrupt natural instincts and direct subconscious needs into channels of expression that further the ends of total control. This is all they have.

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In its ongoing investigation of wealthy Americans suspected of evading taxes via offshore bank accounts, the Internal Revenue Service is planning to expand the search to include attorneys and others who may have advised the account owners, legal tax experts told USA Today. Summa …

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Asked which European financial institutions received the money, which was handed out by The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a component of the Federal Reserve System, Bernanke responded, "I don't know."

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Texas Congressman Ron Paul has recorded a video update on the ongoing effort to audit the Federal Reserve, assuring supporters that the establishment in Washington is paying very close attention.

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Sarah Palin Confounds Liberals- But They Can't Help Loving to Hate Her

With predictability approaching almost absolute certainty, Sarah Palin once again has stopped the Liberal Media and its gaggle of foppish babbling fools like clueless deer in the headlights of history.

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There is a point in tournament poker where one player doesn't have the chips to play out the next raise, but they have great cards, so they call "all in." At that point, nobody can raise them and the hand gets played out -- either to a game changing win or a total loss for the p …

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The accomplished Alaskan governor can gaze into the face of tiny Trig and inherently know that she still has much to learn, even from her little guy.

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