Supporters of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal are forming a federal political action committee to support a presidential run by the 38-year-old Republican, Newsmax reports.
According to the report, Jindal is aware of the operations of Jindal For President Draft Council Inc., but is not directly involved. The organizers include Rama Mohanty, a Southern University professor, and Dan Kyle, a former legislative auditor and failed GOP candidate in several bids for office.
Jindal himself is not, at least …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised in his hilarious opinion article in today’s Times that every home will have broadband access “as we aim for a digital Britain fit to take on the world”. As it turns out, this mighty project is financed… of course, by us, and not by the taxes already collected from people, but by an additional tax.
To finance this Gordon’s dream, every household in Britain will be forced to pay the annual …

Millions of customers of Barclays have been blocked from withdrawing cash and using internet banking after a computer malfunction affected its network, the Daily Mail reports.
According to sources, it was a hardware failure that had caused all ATMs in south of England to stop working from 1PM. The newspaper reports that also customers attempting to log on to the internet bank were met with a message, which said that Barclays were experiencing technical problems.
A Barclays …

According to the report of Russian Public Chamber, alcohol abuse kills around 500,000 people in Russia every year.
The report states that the quality of alcohol was not a major factor in the deaths, RIA Novosti reports, which hints that people just drink themselves to death.
An average Russian drinks 17 litres of spirits a year.
Alcohol is also involved in some 80% of murders and 40% of suicides in Russia, the report added.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today that current British Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sir John Sawers will be appointed as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.
53-year-old Sawers is the first outsider head of MI6 in more than 40 years, the Times reports. He’s replacing Sir John Scarlett, who is retiring after more than five years as C, as the Chief is called.
Sawers began his career with the …

Iran’s authorities are technically putting foreign journalists in house arrest, to prevent them from firsthand reporting on the streets.
According to the AP, the rules apply to all foreign journalists, including Iranians working for foreign media. According to the order, journalists working for foreign media are only allowed to work from their offices, conducting telephone interviews and monitoring official sources such as state television.
AP says the move comes as foreign reporters in Iran to cover the …

According to an Arab source, some Arab terrorists tried to assassinate former US President Jimmy Carter during his visit to Gaza.
The source told new agencies that terrorists linked with al-Qaida planted two roadside bombs at a border crossing between Gaza and Israel, with the intent of striking Carter’s vehicle on his way out of Gaza, Ha’aretz reports.
Witnesses reported seeing Hamas forces patrolling near the Erez crossing and detonating the explosives. However, Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman …

China is making real progress in killing its people – by the end of the year, the death penalty will no longer be carried out by shooting at the back of the head, but a more “humane” way – lethal injection.
Chinese newspaper Beijing Youth Daily said that the reason for such makeover is to make the death penalty less cumbersome and to reduce the trauma to all involved – including executioners and family, according to …

Anonymous bloggers cannot use the courts to keep their identity secret after The Times won a landmark High Court ruling over a policeman who revealed confidential information on an award-winning website, the newspaper reports.
According to the Times, Richard Horton, a detective constable with Lancashire Constabulary, is the author of NightJack, an anonymous blog offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse at front-line policing.
45-year-old Horton tried to obtain a High Court injunction to prevent The …

Interestingly, the recession has hit the producers of common cars – GM being the worst example; but supercar makers are continuing to do well.
Swedish supercar producer Koenigsegg have agreed to buy Saab from the bankrupt automaker General Motors, tentative agreement on the deal was signed today.
According to AFP, Koenigsegg have just 45 employees and produce 18 high-end sports cars a year, each of which cost over £845,000. In comparison, Saab employ about 3,400 people …

A two month campaign for presidential election began on Tuesday in Afghanistan – on 20th August the people get to decide who is going to run the country for the next five years.
According to AP, current President Hamid Karza is the frontrunner, although he has some 40 opponents, main challengers being the former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.
Hamid Karzai has been Afghanistan’s President since the ouster of the Taliban regime …

Iran’s Guardian Council is ready to recount voted from last week’s disputed presidential election, but that might not be enough, if there was a fraud and if it was a voting fraud, not counting fraud.
The Guardian Council said that the recount may lead to changes in candidates’ tally, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Spokesman of the Council said that they were ready to recound the disputed ballot boxes in the presence of the representatives of candidates.
But a …

…because in 17 minutes it gets stolen. At least in London.
According to Daily Mail, London is the most “dishonest” city in the UK, considering that a bike left at London Bridge station was stolen in 17 minutes.
On the other hand, in Liverpool, a bike got stolen in mighty 3 hours 52 minutes, which, according to the newspaper, makes the Beatles town the most “honest” city of those 10, where the “research” took place.
The “national average” …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is promising in his opinion article in The Times that every home will have broadband access “as we aim for a digital Britain fit to take on the world”. Naturally it’s out of Prime Minister’s league, but seemingly, according to Gordon, you can promise anything to the herd of sheep, they’ll believe whatever you say.
In his pathetic attempt of… I don’t even know what, Gordon poetically writes that “digital revolution is …

Seven people were shot dead in Iran on Monday, when they allegedly “tried to attack a military location”, according to Iran’s state radio, another demonstrator was shot in the head outside a local base of the Basij Islamic volunteer militia.
The seven were killed in shooting in western Tehran, Foxnews reports. It was the first official confirmation of Monday’s fatalities in Tehran’s Azadi Square, where witnesses had seen at least one person shot dead and …