Prince Philip in Indian name gaffeSource: theage.com.au
Britain's Prince Philip has reportedly made one of his notorious gaffes by joking with a British-Indian business leader about his name, a newspaper said today.
Half a presidentSource: American Thinker
President Obama apparently wants to do only half of his job -- the part that is the most fun. And he's got his eyes on a higher position.
Radio stations caught up in public-service disputeSource: USA Today
A growing dispute about whether radio stations should pay royalties to artists when their music is aired may be temporarily eclipsed by a potentially precedent-setting fight about radio stations' public-service obligations.
Queen turns corner of palace backyard into an allotmentSource: Guardian Unlimited
As a 14-year-old, she picked up a spade and joined with the rest of wartime Britain in the Dig for Victory campaign. Seven decades later, though no longer wielding the spade herself, the Queen, 83, has again embraced the "grow your own" movement.
No Performance TaxSource: noperformancetax.org
What is a performance tax?
A performance tax is a fee that record labels want the government to impose on local radio stations simply for airing music free of charge for listeners.
Undercover reporters pay their way into palaceSource: sbs.com.au
A royal chauffeur allowed two undercover journalists into Buckingham Palace for cash and let one of them sit in Queen Elizabeth II's Bentley car, a newspaper reported.

Though it happened a few days ago, the controversy is still raging on TV and some websites as to whether President Obama should have acted as he did in such a seemingly obsequious manner.
Isle of Man considers unlimited downloads as Ireland pulls plugsSource: Christian Science Monitor
The Isle of Man is dealing with the crime of Internet piracy in an equally novel way: by accepting defeat.
Rather than police the Internet for illegal activity, the Isle of Man has proposed a radical new tax of £1 ($1.45) per week that will be paid directly to recording compani …
Saudi king shakes up religious establishmentSource: Yahoo! News
The Saudi king on Saturday dismissed the chief of the religious police and a cleric who condoned killing the owners of TV networks that broadcast "immoral" content, signaling an effort to weaken the country's hard-line Sunni establishment.
Thailand bans Economist magazineSource: BBC News
The latest edition of UK-based current affairs magazine the Economist has been banned in Thailand, amid local anger over its coverage of the royal family.
A world free from DRM, copyrights and patentsSource: TG Daily
Opinion - What would it be like to wake up tomorrow and have the ability to take everything that exists and recreate it as needed absolutely free from royalty or limitation? If people and companies could copy anything in existence, rolling it into whatever product they can design …
Thais tighten ban on royal slursSource: Christian Science Monitor
Thailand's lèse-majesté laws are already strict, but a new crackdown on insults has resulted in a spike in arrests, including that of an Australian novelist.
BibliOdyssey: The Jewel BookSource: BibliOdyssey
To be honest, my attention was primarily drawn - at first - not to the jewellery itself, but to the borders and frame decorations.
Thailand's blacklist leaked on the internetSource: banthisurl.com
Thailand's blacklist of newly-banned websites — all accused of lese majeste, or criticising the King — has been leaked to whistleblower site Wikileaks.