Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. She was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. She is the youngest person to have been elected to the position, and Alaska’s first female governor. On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the first woman and the first Alaskan to run on the Republican Party’s presidential ticket. (Wikipedia)

Palin facing voters who doubt her readiness
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin enters her debate Thursday night with Democratic rival Joe Biden as many voters harbor …

A less-popular Sarah Palin heads to debate
Los Angeles Times, CA
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer When Sarah Palin was introduced five weeks ago as John McCain’s running mate, her impact seemed seismic. …

Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin’s Big Moment Arrives
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib Tonight’s vice presidential debate is the big moment for Gov. Sarah Palin, and Michelle Cottle of The New Republic says …

McCain’s ‘Stop Sarah Palin’ strategy working like a charm, polls show
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sarah Palin to stoke overconfidence among the nation’s Democrats and set the stage for yet another improbable Arizona comeback is working exactly as planned …

My life as Sarah Palin: in the line scrutiny
Newsday, NY
I was Sarah Palin last week. Someone quizzed me in front of a camera, asking me all sorts of questions – in my case, for an upcoming documentary on Shea …

Latest Sarah Palin Couric release
The Times, South Africa
Michelle Cottle in The New Republic says that the McCain campaign must be wondering why they hired Sarah Palin. ‘The governor obviously possesses raw …

Viewpoint: Palin column prompts rapid response
Baltimore Sun, United States
Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down from the GOP ticket. The fierce reaction to my column has been both BRACing and enlightening. …

Palin has confounded opponents and staff in previous debates
Seattle Times, United States
“The political landscape here is littered with people who have underestimated Sarah Palin,” said Eric Croft, a former state representative who ran for the …

Entertainment value ‘huge’ for Palin-Biden
Hollywood Reporter, United States
Maybe the first McCain-Obama go-round wasn’t as widely watched as expected, but Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden …

Palin stumbles on questions
News24, South Africa
Washington – Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin underlined her opposition to abortion in a televised interview on Wednesday, but stumbled on …

Blogosphere:

Questions For Sarah Palin
masaccio
Palin. Palin. Here are three questions I’d like to ask Sarah Palin at the Debate. 1. Methicillen Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Multi-Drug Resistant TB are two emerging threats to health in the US. You have stated that you would …

10 answers for Sarah Palin
(Roger Simon)
Even if asked tough questions at the debate, Sarah Palin doesn’t have to be a genius to win.

Sarah Palin: Supreme Court rulings?
Mark Silva
COURIC: Joe Biden and Sarah Palin have put in some very long days, preparing for tomorrow night’s debate. Tonight, to give you a better sense of who they are and their views on a number of issues, we’re beginning a new series, …

Yet Another Slick Sarah Palin Secret E-Mail Account
Kagro X
Like Karl Rove and the rest of the Bush/Cheney gang before her, Sarah Palin has been evading public oversight and record keeping laws with what it turns out is an ever-expanding network of secret e-mail accounts designed to keep her …

Rolling Stone presents 11 myths about Sarah Palin
Mark Frauenfelder
Rolling Stone has compiled a nice list of myths about Sarah Palin. 1. THE MYTH: “She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!” — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin …

Sarah Palin’s Lesbian Friend
DAN SAVAGE
Sarah Palin claimed to have gay friends when she ran for governor of Alaska in 2006. Gay bloggers and reporters have attempted to locate Palin’s allegedly gay alleged friends in the weeks since John McCain selected her as his running …

My Sarah Palin Order!
Dee
For some reason, the bumper sticker pictures don’t want to show up on this post. The first one said, “Sarah Palin A Hero for Real Women”. The second one said, “Sarah Barracuda for Vice President”. I also got my Mom a tote bag. …

Palin Silent on Supreme Court Question
Tahman Bradley
ABC News’ Ariane DeVouge Reports: In an interview with CBS’s Katie Couric on “The Evening News” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could not cite a Supreme Court decision she thinks was wrongly decided besides Roe v. Wade. In the interview, Palin. …

Sarah Palin has a name for your baby
Roger Sinasohn
Yep, coming all the way from Alaska via that well-known series of tubes, it’s the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. Just put in the name you were thinking of and get back Sarah’s suggestion for a better name. …

Sarah Palin and the Right to Privacy
Jonathan Singer
There has been quite a bit of focus — rightly so — on Sarah Palin’s apparent inability to name a Supreme Court case outside of Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, but I’m with Marc Ambinder: To me, even more stunning than Palin’s …

Video: 9/30 Sarah Palin Katie Couric FULL INTERVIEW (HQ). This is the full story/ full interview from Tuesday September 30th, 2008

UPDATE 1-ECB’s Nowotny: no systemic banking crisis in Europe
Reuters
VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Europe’s banking sector is not in a systemic crisis and does not need a bailout similar to the one planned in the United States, …

Ballmer on banking crisis: No one is safe
Register, UK
He said: “I have to believe that some of the issues also face the European banks and I trust that the European Central Bank will be as intelligent as it …

Banking Crisis Forces EU States to Play Bigger Role in Finance
Deutsche Welle, Germany
“So, for now, financial supervision in Europe remains very fragmented on a country level,” analysts at banking group Citi said. “In turn, this may make the …

Euro Falls Most Against Dollar Amid European Banking Failures
Bloomberg
The highest reached in 1998, during the Asian banking crisis was minus 38.5 basis points in October 1998, according to Bloomberg data. …

Markets in crisis as Europe stares into banking abyss
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Mr Redeker said the latest twist was a move by banks to deposit €28 billion in funds at the European Central Bank in a panic flight to safety. …

Dow posts record point drop as US lower house rejects bailout
Hürriyet, Turkey
That further unnerved investors who on Monday saw the credit crisis claim several new victims, including Wachovia Corp and a bevy of European banks. …

World urges US to get a grip on banking crisis
AFP
With commercial banks reluctant to risk loaning money to each other, the European Central Bank attempted to release liquidity into the credit market by …

Global shares hit as banking crisis bites in Europe
Reuters
By Veronica Brown LONDON (Reuters) – European shares fell heavily on Monday as fallout from the credit crisis hit the region’s banking sector, …

Banking Crisis Leaves Europeans with Bill in the Billions
Spiegel Online, Germany
With trust between banks waning, analysts believe Europe is threatened with a serious credit crunch. The logos of Europe’s crisis banks: The crisis is …

Rand falls on Europe crisis fears
Dispatch Online, South Africa
… major currencies in late trade yesterday amid rising risk aversion in the wake of suggestions that the US banking crisis was spreading to Europe. …

Blogosphere:

What Would Europe do in a Banking Crisis?
Tom Groenfeldt
The US crisis has made at least some folks across the Altantic ask “What would Europe do?” If a BNP, HSBC, or UBS ran into life-threatening liquidity problems, could Europe generate a coordinated response? The European-based banks were …

World shares hit by Europe banking crisis
Veronica Brown
B&B, Fortis bailouts shove European shares, euro lower.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares hit as banking crisis bites in Europe
MSCI world equity index down 1.9 percent at 305.48 * B&B, Fortis bailouts shove European shares, euro lower * TARP overshadowed as investors fret on banking contagion By Veronica Brown LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – European shares fell …

Markets in crisis as Europe stares into banking abyss
THE global credit crisis has triggered the rescue of five leading European banks and a near-shutdown of the region’s credit markets.

Paris Bourse slides as banking crisis reaches Europe
(IANS)As evidence grew that the US finance crisis has reached Europe, French shares fell sharply in early trading Monday, with banking shares leading the decline.After …

As contagion spreads, moods abruptly shift
Natalie
In Europe, the banking crisis “can hardly spread further — it is everywhere,” said Willem Buiter, a professor at the London School of Economics and former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee. …

New Overnight Developments Abroad: Banking Crisis Slams Europe
larrygreenberg
The British government nationalized the mortgage lender, Bradford and Bingley. Germany’s Hypo Real Estate in a rescue, too. The third largest Icelandic bank was nationalized. Money market strains in Europe intensified despite news that …

Europe faces its own banking crisis
Fortis drops more than 20 percent, Royal Bank of Scotland is down 14 percent, and UK mortgage giant Bradford & Bingley is being nationaized

Fear of financial icebergs grows
Internation Musing
But will this convince savers that their money is safe in the bank? For the financial and political fire-fighters on two continents, the European banking crisis only represents one-third of their concerns. …

Lessons from Europe as the US convulses amid credit crisis
A Bank of Finland official offers parallels and solutions from Sweden, Norway and Finland, which suffered three of the worst banking crises in the post-World War II economyVideo: AM Forex NY – EUR, GBP slide, as banking crisis spreads

A financial crisis happens when some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Many financial crises are banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, as well as international phenomena like currency crises and sovereign defaults. (Wikipedia)

White House rivals war over deepening financial crisis
AFP
Obama, arguing the United States was “in the midst of the most serious financial crisis in generations,” heaped scorn on McCain for claiming the economy was …

Bloomberg warns of possible ‘next wave’ crisis
The Associated Press
Bloomberg said he was concerned that the credit crisis in the United States may scare off foreign investors that, until now, have been willing to buy debt …

Crisis Exposes Flaws in US Economy, Tarnishes Image (Update1)
Bloomberg
The meltdown has created “a crisis of confidence in the US government,” said Jim Leach, a former Republican US congressman from Iowa who is now a …

Lawmakers Left on the Sidelines as Fed, Treasury Take Swift Action
Washington Post, United States
By Lori Montgomery The frenetic pace of the financial crisis has forced the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to make rapid-fire decisions in recent …

Fischer holds emergency meeting in wake of Wall Street crisis
Ynetnews, Israel
Inc. Interior Minister Sheetrit, Defense Minister Barak call on cabinet to take any action necessary to minimize impact of recent Wall Street crisis on …

Stocks plunge after crisis in investment firms
Boston Globe, United States
Meanwhile, the financial crisis could mean the loss of hundreds of financial services jobs, not just at Lehman’s offices, but at other investment firms in …

The financial crisis Wall Street’s bad dream
Economist, UK
It is a measure of the scale of the crisis that, by the evening of Wednesday, all eyes were on Morgan Stanley, and no longer on AIG, which only 24 hours …

Bush Cancels Trip Amid Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Mr. Bush would make any further public comment on the crisis on Thursday. He’s maintained a relatively low profile on …

US CRISIS: WASHINGTON MUTUAL FOR SALE
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy
Washington Mutual, the American mortgage giant, seriously weakened by the mortgage crisis, is up for sale. This according to sources close to the situation.

Financial crisis deepens amid fear of continued stock dive
Los Angeles Times, CA
The global financial crisis deepened Wednesday as stock prices cratered and credit markets seized up, teetering financial institutions sought salvation in …

Blogosphere:

McCain and Financial Crisis
Mona Charen
This has not been John McCain’s finest hour. Does he rail against Wall Street for political effect? If so, it’s demagoguery. But he has a unpleasant tendency to accuse others of corruption. Now I’m no expert on these financial deals but …

Russia faces biggest financial crisis since default
Russia halted stock trading for a second day yesterday, poured $US44 billion into its three largest banks and relaxed restrictions on lenders to stem the financial crisis.

Another conference, another crisis
Ros Scott
Arriving home in Suffolk for a brief connection with my cottage, I was reflecting on how often our conferences have co-incided with some kind of external crisis – Northern Rock last Autumn, sterling crashing out of the ERM when we were …

Meltdown 2008: What Wall Street’s crisis means for your finances
Amey Stone
Filed under: Major movement, Market matters, Personal finance. It seems like years ago, but it was only Monday when I wrote a post about what Wall Street’s meltdown means to the average American. The post generated a slew of additional …

Explaining the Financial Crisis: Continuously Updated News …
Josh Korr
News sites could help explain the crisis by putting up a continuously updated aggregation of links to the best reporting and commentary. Some sites may already have bloggers linking to these stories, but why not put the links right on …

Comment on Crisis: Necessary Steps
CalculatedRisk
… the viability of WaMu and others institutions in doubt, Fannie and Freddie placed in conservatorship, a major money market fund halting redemptions, it might seem like the credit crisis is spiraling out of control. …

Open thread on the financial crisis
A reader asks me to let my resident experts discuss the situation, and my resident learners to ask questions. So here you go: talk away.

Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Crisis As Bad As Great Depression …
Describing the current situation as a “top down crisis”, Stiglitz also cited the $3 trillion cost of the Iraq war as a key factor in the economic downturn, saying it has increased the budget deficit and consumed resources that would …

Global Markets Are Rattled By Growing Financial Crisis
Financial markets continued to be pounded by worries that the turmoil sweeping Wall Street will continue to spread around the globe. Crisis Ripple Effects: Pros Speak; AIG Gets US Government Lifeline; Rescues Cost $900 Billion So Far.

Financial Crisis: Dems Try to Rewrite History – Again
As I pointed out previously, Nancy Pelosi is clueless. Apparently history, at least for her, started after at least 2005. As Ed Morrissey points out, 2005 would be the year John McCain made this speech: Mr. President, this week Fannie. …

Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation”
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a …

Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia
The Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. …

Georgia conflict: Pro-Kremlin enclaves surround Russian borders
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The enclave of South Ossetia in Georgia sought Russian protection as far back as 1993. The Kremlin’s troops, officially designated as peacekeepers, …

McCain, Obama urge halt to fighting in Georgia
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The major candidates for president on Friday called on Russia and Georgia to end their military action and appealed for more …

Georgia: New Trial in Love Triangle Killing
New York Times, United States
By AP A woman convicted of shooting her 85-year-old ex-boyfriend to death because she thought he was seeing another woman was granted a new trial more than …

REFILE-Georgia says may appeal for int’l military help
Reuters
MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Georgia may appeal for international military assistance depending on how the conflict in its separatist region South Ossetia …

Russian-Georgia conflict hits close to home for US archer
USA Today
One of her roommates looked at her, “Georgia?” She quickly found out her homeland was under attack. Georgia’s US-educated president, Mikheil Saakashvili, …

Georgia pays price for its Nato ambitions
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
One fact is clear: the Kremlin’s troops would not be in South Ossetia today if Georgia were a loyal ally. Instead, Mr Saakashvili is paying the price for …

Emerging Markets-Selloff on Georgia conflict, Argentina fears
Reuters
By Daniel Bases NEW YORK, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Fighting between Russia and Georgia involving a breakaway republic and plunging confidence in Argentina’s future …

Georgia Conflict Quotes
Sky News, UK
Georgia and Russia are locked in a conflict that threatens to explode into all-out war. “I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, …

Blogosphere:

The candidates on Georgia
Ben Smith
McCain condemns the invasion and Obama calls for restraint. See also: McCain’s hard stand.

Did the US Prep Georgia for War with Russia?
Nathan Hodge
The news thus far: Georgia, which has been locked in a drone war over the separatist enclave of Abkhazia, has launched an offensive to reclaim another breakaway territory, South Ossetia. Latest reports indicate that Georgian forces are …

US Attacks Russia Through Client State Georgia
“Georgia and the Pentagon cooperate closely,” reports MSNBC, “Georgia has a 2000-strong contingent supporting the US-led coalition in Iraq, and Washington provides training and equipment to the Georgian military.” …

Georgia: The Blame Game
Onnik Krikorian
At stake are Russia’s already strained relations with the West, which backs Georgia, as well as Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili’s hopes of leading his country into the NATO alliance within the next year. …

Candidates React to Georgia/Russia Conflict
Today, news reports indicate that Russian military forces crossed an internationally-recognized border into the sovereign territory of Georgia. Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all …

Morning Russia-Georgia Roundup
Robert Farley
Georgia claims to have shot down ten Russian aircraft; the Russians say they’ve lost two. Significant Russian air attacks over Georgia, which makes me suspect that the losses are from SAMs. Russian paratroopers are in Tskhinvali; …

NATO encouraged Georgia – Russian envoy Georgia: my take from today’s London “Times”
Edward Lucas
That is the bleak outlook for Georgia this weekend, after what initially looked like a quick military win against the separatist regime in South Ossetia. Georgia’s attack followed weeks of escalating provocations, including hours of …

Afternoon headlines: Edwards vs Georgia
While the cable TV news stations go wall-to-wall about John Edwards, who admits to his affair but denies he’s the child’s father, the Russians and the Georgians are going at it:

International Law, Power Politics, and Russian Intervention in Georgia
Chris Borgen
Russia’s intervention in Georgia is the latest, and most obvious, example of the peculiar role that Russia plays in the various so-called frozen conflicts in former republics of the USSR. As international security expert Dov Lynch has …

Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade’s War Crimes Court. For some time he had been working at a private clinic in Belgrade specialising in alternative medicine and psychology under the alias Dr. Dragan David Dabić under the company name of “Human Quantum Energy”. (Wikipedia)

Radovan Karadzic’s female companion shocked at true identity
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
A woman who was Radovan Karadzic’s companion during his life in hiding has told of her shock at discovering his true identity. She vehemently denies reports …

Karadzic trial to test tribunal
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Kevin Sullivan and Peter Finn THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader accused of genocide and crimes against …

The Karadzic Trial
New York Times, United States
Q. What is Radovan Karadzic charged with? What is the process? A. Radovan Karadzic is charged with a wide range of crimes, from genocide to crimes against …

Jewish organizations welcomed the arrest of indicted war criminal …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee applauded the arrest of Karadzic, who is accused of overseeing the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, …

Radovan Karadzic: the ultimate quack?
guardian.co.uk, UK
The extraordinary double life of Bosnian genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic as an alternative therapist poses the question: is this the final nail in the …

Arrest of Karadzic eases Dutch feelings of guilt
Radio Netherlands, Netherlands
Now that the former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been arrested, attention appears to be shifting away from the Dutch actions in Srebrenica. …

National Post editorial board on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic: A …
National Post, Canada
Boris Tadić has more integrity than Vojislav Koštunica ever had (faint praise indeed) but make no mistake: Radovan Karadzic was bought and paid for. …

The Radovan Karadzic trial will be a travesty
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The loathsome Radovan Karadžić will be vacu-suctioned off to The Hague to face a court that violates every norm of jurisprudence. …

Court Advocates Hope Bashir Gets Message from Karadzic Arrest
Voice of America
He says that President Bashir may be able to draw some important lessons from the international resolve that finally brought Radovan Karadzic to justice. …

Timeline: Radovan Karadzic
Financial Times, UK
945 Radovan Karadzic is born into poverty in Savnik (now Montenegro), Yugoslavia, the son of a Serb nationalist fighter. 1960 He moves to Sarajevo, …

Blogosphere:

Sri Sri Radovan Karadzic
David Seaton
That’s why I laughed out loud when I read that Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb’s answer to Dr. Mengele, had disguised himself as a guru and nobody around him ever caught on… No flies on this mass murderer. A perfect disguise. …

Doctor Radovan Karadzic?
Cheryl Brink
The former president of Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested yesterday on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the war from 1992 to 1995. He has been on the run for the last 11 years and apparently working as a …

Radovan Karadžić, The Balkans & China
davesgonechina
Radovan Karadžić has been arrested in Belgrade, where he has been hiding right under everyones noses under an assumed identity of a mystic healer. On the official Serbian/English website of his alter ego, Dr. Dragan Dabic, he claims he …

Things that are giving psychiatry a bad name – Radovan Karadzic
Frontier Psychiatrist
Anyone who thinks that psychiatrists are murders and psychopaths need look no further than Radovan Karadzic, who until yesterday was Europe’s most wanted man and is now awaiting trial for war crimes in The Hague. …

Radovan Karadzic/Dragan David Dabic’s website
Adam LeBor
If a Hollywood scriptwriter came up with a plot that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war criminals, would be found posing as an alternative medicine practitioner in New Belgrade, wearing a long white …

Serbia: Radovan Karadzic was Disguised as a Doctor
Sinisa Boljanovic
On July 22, Rasim Ljaljic, president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, and Vladimir Vukcevic, a war crimes prosecutor, held a press conference about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic a day earlier. …

Jasmina Tešanović: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic (essay)
Xeni Jardin
Radovan Karadzic, poet, psychiatrist and planetary war criminal number one, effectively vanished in 1996. His General, Ratko Mladic, is still on the run. Karadzic and Mladic were the architect and the builder of the genocide in …

Radovan Karadzic is History
Mark Stoneman
For the generation of students I am now teaching, Radovan Karadzic might seem like ancient history. Only my older nontraditional students remember the Bosnian War. Those in their twenties and teens were either too young at the time to …

Sean M. Maloney on Radovan Karadzic’s time on the lam: What took …
Dan Goldbloom
After 13 years of futility, the West is cheering the capture of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a man accused of a log list of hideous war crimes. As someone who has followed the Balkans closely, I cannot help but think …

White House Hails Arrest of Radovan Karadzic
The White House lauds Serbia after its arrest of one of the world’s most wanted fugitives — Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the 1990s “ethnic cleansing.” “There is no better tribute to the victims of the war’s …

Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush (born November 25, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and the fraternal twin of Barbara Pierce Bush. Jenna and Barbara are known as the First Twins both because they are the children of the U.S. President and because they are the first twin children of a sitting President. (Wikipedia)

Shhhh! Bush wedding is quiet event
Chicago Tribune, United States
President George W. Bush did tell Fox News: “There’s going to be bands and good food, I hope.” In marrying Jenna Bush, Hager is saying “I do” to being the …

US President Bush’s daughter Jenna weds
Rediff, India
US President George W Bush’s [Images] daughter Jenna Bush [Images] got married on Sunday at her father’s Texas ranch. Jenna, 26, wed fiance Henry Hager, 30, …

Jenna Bush wedding is a First Family affair
Times Online, UK
Jenna Bush married Henry Hager in a down-home Texas wedding yesterday at the family ranch in Crawford, Texas, before some 200 friends and relatives and in …

Jenna Bush ties the knot
Independent Online, South Africa
Waco, Texas – US President George Bush said the wedding of his daughter Jenna at his Texas ranch had been “spectacular”. “Our little girl, Jenna, …

Jenna Bush says ‘I do’
ITV.com, UK
Mr Hager met Jenna during her father’s 2004 re-election campaign. He graduated from Wake Forest University and worked as an aide to Mr Bush’s former top …

Jenna Bush’s wedding a secret service
Boston Globe, United States
President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but yesterday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her …

Jenna Bush Has Wedding at Ranch in Crawford
New York Times, United States
Jenna Welch Bush and Henry Chase Hager were married at the Bush family’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell officiated. …

JENNA BUSH WEDDING Jenna Bush Wedding
ABC News
In this image, President Bush and Jenna Bush pose for a photographer prior to Jenna’s wedding at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Bush Daughter Marries at Private Texas Ceremony
Voice of America
By VOA News Jenna Bush – the 26-year-old daughter of President and Mrs. Bush – was married Saturday night in a small, private affair at her family’s ranch …

Jenna Bush Wedding was Private Affair; Pictures Available on
TransWorldNews (press release), GA
Jenna Bush, the daughter of President George W. Bush, got married to Henry Hager in a beautiful wedding Sunday at her father’s Crawford, Texas ranch. …

First Daughter Jenna Bush Weds over Mother’s Day Weekend
WBKO, KY
Against the backdrop of a stunning Texas sunset, near a lake on the Bush family’s 1600 acre Crawford ranch, President Bush walked his daughter Jenna down …

Jenna Bush’s Wedding Officiant Supports Obama
AOL News Newsbloggers, VA
Jenna Bush married her longtime boyfriend this weekend on her family’s Crawford ranch. By all accounts it was a lovely ceremony and a great party. …

Charting the Marriage of Jenna Bush and Henry Hager
National Ledger, AZ
Life in the material world comes easily to them, and they are extremely practical and often conservative so it is not surprising that Jenna Bush chose Henry …

Bush-Hager wedding details emerge
Austin American-Statesman, TX
By Melanie Spencer | Monday, May 12, 2008, 11:08 AM First daughter Jenna Bush’s wedding to Henry Hager went off without a hitch on Saturday evening. …

Jenna Bush Married in Ceremony with Sounds of Skull and Bones and …
The Spoof (satire), UK
Jenna Bush, 26, the beautiful blond daughter of President Bush was married in a private ceremony, Saturday May 10, 2008 at Mr. Bush’s Crawford Ranch near …

Jenna Bush gets hitched, Tom Cruise’s movie gets postponed, Suge …
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OH
First Daughter Jenna Bush, 26, married Henry Hager, 30, in a private ceremony in front of 200 relatives and friends at the Bush family home in Crawford, …

Jenna Bush Wedding Photos Released!
Think Fashion – Blogs, Canada
Jenna Bush, daughter of current president George Bush, married her longtime love, Henry Hager, this weekend at her father’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas. …

The first romantic images of Jenna Bush’s lakeside nuptials
hellomagazine.com, UK
To the rest of America the wedding of President Bush’s daughter Jenna and former White House aide Henry Chase Hager represented one of the most high-profile …

Jenna Bush’s wedding casual and private
Baltimore Sun, United States
AP CRAWFORD, Texas – Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. …

Jenna Bush weds, down-home style
Los Angeles Times, CA
But we do know what song she and President Bush danced to, at least. From the Associated Press CRAWFORD, TEXAS — Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting …

First Daughter Jenna Bush Weds
AHN
Crawford, TX (CNS) – First daughter Jenna Bush has married Henry Chase Hager in a lakeside ceremony Saturday. The couple wed before sundown at her father’s …

Inside look at Jenna Bush’s wedding
NECN, MA
Surrounded by Texas wildflowers and the setting sun, Jenna Bush and Henry Hager were married Saturday. Just as the vows were exchanged, the sun set over our …

Jenna Bush’s wedding is low-key affair at ranch
The Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — Jenna Bush couldn’t see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. …

President Bush’s daughter marries in private ceremony
News Line 365, India
Jenna Bush, one of the twin daughters of president George Bush married in an ultra-private wedding ceremony in his ranch at Crawford, Texas. …

Jenna Bush and Henry Hager Wedding Photos
In Entertainment, UK
The White House have released pictures of the private wedding between First daughter Jenna Bush and Henry Hager on Saturday the 10th May 2008. …

Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence
The Canadian Press
PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt …

Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split
Times Online, UK
Russia warned the West today that recognition of Kosovo’s independence would affect its attitude towards two breakaway regions of neighbouring Georgia. …

FACTBOX: EU to launch Kosovo police and justice mission
Reuters
(Reuters) – European Union states are due to approve this weekend the launch of a 2000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo. …

Kosovo poised to declare independence on February 17 – report
Sofia Echo, Bulgaria
Kosovo will declare independence on February 17 2008 at 5pm local time, Kosovo government officials said minutes before an official news conference held …

Serbia’s Tadic vows to preserve Kosovo
Irish Times, Ireland
Serbia swore in President Boris Tadic today two days before Kosovo proclaims independence, in the country’s most traumatic moment since it was bombed by …

Kosovo’s looming independence raises question: Why not Scotland or …
International Herald Tribune, France
Kosovo’s looming independence raises all those questions and more. For starters: Why is statehood OK for some people but frowned on for others? …

Bulgaria Won’t Be Among the First to Recognize Kosovo
Hовини.bg, Bulgaria
Bulgarian ambassador in the United States Elena Poptodorova claimed that the pronouncement of Kosovo’s independence is just a matter of time. …

Serbian President vows to keep unwilling Kosovo
ABC Online, Australia
Boris Tadic has been sworn in as Serbia’s President, pledging to preserve his country’s sovereignty over Kosovo, which is to declare independence within …

Serbia denounces Kosovo independence bid
Houston Chronicle, United States
The government demanded that the Security Council “immediately annul” any Kosovo declaration of independence, and denounced a European Union plan to …

Serbia Rejects Kosovo Independence Bid
Forbes, NY
By SLOBODAN LEKIC 02.14.08, 8:52 AM ET Serbia’s government proclaimed Thursday that any unilateral act by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership to declare …

Something about Kosovo and the “Independence Week”
BalkanInsight.com, Serbia
So many harmful things that Kostunica’s government can do, such as cut the electricity wires, seal the borders, not recognise Kosovo’s independence ever… …

Kosovo’s independence weighs on Cyprus’ elections
Courrier International, France
“Because election day is also the day that Kosovo is expected to declare independence. The principle theme of the elections is the reunification of the …

Azerbaijan Not in Hurry to Recognize Kosovo’s Independence
Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
On 15 February, the Kosovo Parliament approved of the resolution allowing the passing of a set of laws on Kosovo’s independence within 24 hours. …

Greek foreign minister discusses Kosovo misgivings with US officials
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
AP WASHINGTON (AP) – Greek foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis discussed her reservations about Kosovo’s expected declaration of independence from Serbia with …

Serbia: President sworn in as Kosovo prepares for independence
آكي, Italy
“I solemnly swear that I will devote all my efforts to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the republic of Serbia, including Kosovo and …

Kosovo premier promises security for minorities
Monsters and Critics.com
Pristina – Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci remained mum Friday about when his breakaway province would declare its independence from Serbia, …

Top political analysts on Lavrov’s ‘end of Europe’ Kosovo warning
RIA Novosti, Russia
What, we asked, will be the geopolitical consequences of Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence? Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, …

Presevo Albanians Back Kosovo
BalkanInsight.com, Serbia
5 February 2008 Pristina _ Ethnic Albanian leaders from the Presevo valley, in southern Serbia, have expressed their support for Kosovo’s independence …