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Officials at the CNE are offering tickets at a bargain price for this afternoon's speech by former U.S. president Bill Clinton at BMO Field, after only a third of available tickets were sold as of late Friday. Only 7,200 of the 20,000 available tickets have been sold for Clinton's speech, which will be entitled "Embracing our common humanity." In an attempt to fill seats, CNE organizers have announced that spectators can pay an extra $5 on top of the $15 admission fee to the Ex to gain entry to Clinton's speech. There is a $2.50 handling fee, as well. "President...

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists released after nearly five months in North Korean custody, have been widely portrayed at home as victims of unduly harsh punishment by a repressive government for simply doing their job. But here in South Korea, human rights advocates, bloggers and Christian pastors are accusing them of needlessly endangering the very people they tried to cover: North Korean refugees and the activists who help them. The accusations stem from a central fear repeated in newspapers and blogs here: that the notes and videotapes the journalists gathered in China before their ill-fated venture...

Obama Approval: 51% Disapproval: 40%

BOMBSHELL WORLD EXCLUSIVE! John Edwards has secretly undergone a DNA test - and it proves he's the father of his mistress' love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Multiple sources confirm the bombshell development, and reveal lawyers for the disgraced presidential candidate are privately hammering out child support payments with his former lover Rielle Hunter. Edwards - who hotly denied he was the child's father when he publicly confessed his affair with Rielle on ABC's Nightline a year ago - has broken the news to his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, sources say. But The ENQUIRER has also learned that Rielle testified...

China executed two business people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of more than $127-million (U.S.), calling the scam a serious blow to social stability, state media said Thursday. China puts to death more people than any other country, Though usually reserved for violent crimes, death sentences are also applied for nonviolent offences that involve large sums of money or are seen to threaten social order. The two were executed Wednesday. The report said Du Yimin, a beauty parlour owner from eastern Zhejiang province, collected more than 700 million yuan ($102.5-million) from investors by promising them monthly returns of up...

Last night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann not only named CNN's Lou Dobbs the "worst person in the world" but called him a "soft-focus, birther-embracing former star, a man who during the week makes millions off bashing immigrants, especially Hispanics, even though his wife and kids are Hispanic." Olbermann followed up with some questions: "What do you want, Lou? To come take a swing at me? That Lou Dobbs? Meds? Have you had your tranquilizer dart yet today, Lou?" Well, Dobbs didn't like that, claiming on his radio show today that Olbermann is "hallucinating" and "making up stories." And Dobbs rattled up...

Despite being polar opposites in politics, Bill Clinton and Kim Jong-il are united by a love not merely of big hair but of the noble game of golf. Trouble is, both men are also known for the "creative accounting" when it comes to totting up their scorecards. In October 1994, for instance, the Dear Leader played his first ever round of golf at the testing 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang, and, according to the state media, completed all 18 holes in a mere 34 shots, a score some 25 shots lower than the next best round in history. What made...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation, according to people familiar with the meeting. The proposed regulatory revamp is one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities. But since it was unveiled in June, the plan has been criticized by the financial-services industry, as well as by financial regulators wary of encroachment on their turf. Mr. Geithner told the regulators Friday that "enough is enough," said one person familiar with the meeting. Mr. Geithner said regulators had been...

The poll was conducted Wednesday to Sunday, July 22-26. Among those interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday, 53 percent of whites approved of Obama's job performance. This slipped to 46 percent among whites interviewed Friday through Sunday as the Gates story played out. Obama made his comments the night of July 22 — a Wednesday. In polling of racial minorities and Hispanics, Obama's approval with that group of respondents rose from 63 percent among those interviewed Wednesday and Thursday to 74 percent among those interviewed Friday through Sunday. Obama's overall job approval in the poll was 54 percent, down from 61...

A black sergeant who was at the home of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. when he was arrested says he’s been maligned as an “Uncle Tom” for supporting the actions of the white arresting officer. Cambridge Sgt. Leon Lashley gave a letter to Sgt. James Crowley to give to President Barack Obama during their so-called beer summit with Gates on Thursday night at the White House. In the letter, which was also sent to CNN, Lashley says Gates “may have caused grave and potentially irreparable harm to the struggle for racial harmony.”

A Spanish Catalan newspaper is reporting that Honduran authorities have seized computers found in the Presidential Palace belonging to deposed president Mel Zelaya. Taking a page right out of the leftist dictator's handbook, these computers, according to the news report, contained the official and certified results of the illegal constitutional referendum Zelaya wanted to conduct that never took place. The results of this fraudulent vote was tilted heavily in Zelaya's favor, ensuring he could go ahead and illegally change the constitution so he could remain in power for as long as he wanted to. ACORN, I'm sure, is taking notes....

Chinese police shot dead 12 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang this month, regional governor Nuer Baikeli said on Saturday, in a rare government admission of deaths inflicted by security forces. ... Asked to elaborate on the casualties, the governor said most of the victims sustained head wounds after they were bludgeoned with bricks and iron rods. Police shot dead 12 armed Uighurs attacking civilians and ransacking shops after they ignored warning shots fired into the air, said Nuer Baikeli, a Uighur, a Turkic people who are largely Muslim and share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia. Of the 12, three...

Monetary policy only works if banks lend, and a surefire way to make that happen is to make banking heads part of the body politic as is done in China. Loan growth continues at a rapid-fire pace, suggesting that U.S. domestic demand matters little to the growth trajectory of China’s economy in the near term. Authorities said “lend!” and bankers said “how much?” and then blew through those figures. Bank lending in China doubled in the first half of the year over the same period in 2008. Construction activity has rebounded after authorities wrung the excesses from the property market...

BEIJING -- China's economy accelerated in the second quarter amid huge stimulus spending, expanding by 7.9 percent from a year earlier as retail sales and industrial output grew strongly, data showed Thursday. The growth rate, reported by the National Bureau of Statistics, was up from 6.1 percent in the first quarter. The government's growth target for this year is 8 percent. Consumer prices in June fell 1.7 percent from a year earlier, data showed, giving Beijing a freer hand to carry out its 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus without a danger of adding to pressure for prices to rise....

Chinese police shot and killed two Uighur men and injured a third Monday in northwestern Xinjiang province as security forces patrol the streets to clamp down on ethic violence. China's state-run Xinhua news agency said the deadly shooting occurred in the regional capital Urumqi as police tried to stop a group of Uighurs from attacking another Uighur man, said a report from Reuters. Three men used clubs and knives to attack a fourth man near a hospital, said Xinhua. Police fired warning shots before shooting at the three attackers, said the report. The man who was injured by police was...

A study published Wednesday found that rapamycin, a drug used in organ transplants, increased the life span of mice by 9% to 14%, the first definitive case in which a chemical has been shown to extend the life span of normal mammals. Anti-aging researchers also expect a second study, to be released this week, will show that sharply cutting the calorie intake of monkeys extends their lives substantially. The experiment is said to be the first technique shown to retard aging in primates ... The Wisconsin study, which began in 1989 with 30 monkeys and added 46 more in 1994,...

Let other capitals go all weak-kneed when President Obama visits. Moscow has greeted Mr. Obama, who on Tuesday night concluded a two-day Russian-American summit meeting, as if he were just another dignitary passing through. Crowds did not clamor for a glimpse of him. Headlines offered only glancing or flippant notice of his activities. Television programming was uninterrupted; devotees of the Russian Judge Judy had nothing to fear. Even many students and alumni of the Western-oriented business school where Mr. Obama gave the graduation address on Tuesday seemed merely respectful, but hardly enthralled. “We don’t really understand why Obama is such...

Thousands of angry ethnic Han Chinese wielding clubs and machetes roamed this capital city of Xinjiang territory and engaged in sporadic revenge attacks against Uighurs after deadly riots Sunday. The fresh unrest prompted Chinese President Hu Jintao to fly home early Wednesday from Italy, where he had been scheduled to attend the meeting of the Group of Eight leading nations. His sudden departure from such a high-profile international event underlined the severity of the challenge the Xinjiang violence presents to China's leadership. In Urumqi, authorities imposed a curfew and security forces tried to keep the two ethnic groups apart in...

State-run Chinese media say police have arrested 1,434 suspects in the deadly ethnic riots in the western Xinjiang region. Officials released no other details. The White House says it is deeply concerned over the deadly violence in and has called for restraint. Chinese officials say at least 156 people were killed and more than 800 hurt in riots between ethic Uighurs and police in Xinjiang. Monday's fighting grew out of what witnesses say was a peaceful anti-government protest by Uighurs Sunday. No one is sure what led the march to explode into violence. But Chinese officials accuse exiled Uighur groups...

Video 1.Muslisms protest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWjRPRf-qbM crack-down by Chinese government, you can hear gun shots in the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3X3iXqJnI