(AP) - World markets fell Friday, led by bank stocks after President Barack Obama proposed a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street to avert future financial crises.

Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray tells Newsmax that a possible new conspiracy regarding global warming has been uncovered in the U.S.

In a one-two series of Climategate aftershocks that assuredly will further rattle the global warming community, a report has been issued by U.S. researchers accusing government agencies of cherry-picking temperature readings used to assess global temperatures, and a series of embarrassing e-mails were released revealing what happened when a blogger dared to point out a mistake by NASA climate scientists.

LONDON – Fourteen bogus colleges in Britain have had their licenses to operate revoked after intelligence agents at MI5 discovered they had “multiple communications” with Islamic extremists in Britain – including the alleged Detroit bomber, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

It is already here but “the powers that be” refuse to admit it!

Analyst Dennis Gartman says the United States is becoming increasingly reliant on Canada, not Saudi Arabia, for oil.

According to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, since 2000, 45 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. Of course, just as have some 5,600 other Mexicans have been killed in 2008 alone, these reporters have fallen victim to that country’s drug cartels.

But I told you so. - Writing as a former registered Democrat now Independent who saw problems with both mainstream political parties’ real and perceived positions, I penned several articles prior to the election warning Republicans of the mess they’d find themselves in if they persisted in catering primarily to their ultra-conservative base.

Electricity is so commonplace that no one gives any thought to not having access to it. Few give any consideration to how it is generated, but we are now being inundated with the most virulent nonsense about how wind or solar power is “clean” and practically “free.” Every week there’s some new proposal to cover the nation with wind farms and solar panels.

In May 2006 Bush promised a ‘virtual fence’ that was sure to be “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.”

Events are moving fast in Europe. The worst riots since the fall of Communism have swept the Baltics and the south Balkans. An incipient crisis is taking shape in the Club Med bond markets. S&P has cut Greek debt to near junk. Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish bonds are on negative watch.

The dream of most immigrants is to strike it rich and then move back home. But, striking it rich is relative, given that in many of the countries these people come from the monthly salary can be around 200 dollars.

Among other things, the Citizenship class recommends girls lose their virginity before marriage, say critics.

A few weeks ago when an Israeli army officer who had strayed into the town of Jenin was almost lynched by a Palestinian mob, it did nothing to dampen the popularity of the Palestinian cause.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece—The fires consuming southern Greece raced toward the site of the ancient Olympics on Sunday, engulfing entire villages and forests as it reached the hillside next to one of the most revered sites of antiquity.

SEOUL, South Korea—South Korea said its army remained on alert Sunday, a day after North Korea threatened military action in response to Seoul’s hard-line stance against its communist regime.

There were almost no media reports on it, but China’s 17th Communist Party Congress (CPC) adopted a new amended Constitution(1) on October 21, 2007. Should you care about this? Perhaps. It was at the 11th Congress of China’s Communist Party Congress, held in 1979, that China adopted, in effect, free enterprise. That is why so much of what you buy today comes from China. Since that Congress the economy of China has grown by leaps and bounds. 

The Peoples’ Republic of China, which started frightening consumers last March with poisoned pet food, is still at it this Halloween. 

The economy will grow at its slowest rate in seven years over the coming months according to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.

China is missing some uranium and they have no idea where it has gone.

Back in 2005, I wrote an earlier version of this current analysis.

Jordan’s King Abdullah is clearly feeling the pressure as the spotlight increasingly focuses on the role Jordan will have to play in resolving the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank between Jews and Arabs.

Mel Gibson has a new movie out, Edge of Darkness.

The headline of Avi Yellin’s article in January 22, 2010’s Israel National News/Arutz Sheva read , “Mitchell Pitches a New 5-Point Plan for Middle East Negotiations.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visited Turkey on 6 January and attempted to dance his own version of the Turkey Trot - 100 years after its first introduction to the ballroom floor.