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A German Internet auction is selling Saddam's left leg. The results of the global vote between Bush and Kerry are in. And the Queen goes green.
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A German auction website has come up with a new souvenir idea: It is accepting bids on the left leg of the Saddam Hussein statue famously pulled down in Baghdad. The leg was apparently smuggled out of Iraq to Germany by two British contractors and has been sitting in the yard of a German scrap dealer for six months. Click here  and scroll down for the English description.

The world, as has been reported in these pages and elsewhere, doesn't much care for US President George W. Bush. A mock, global vote by Internet makes the level of that dislike clear. Here are the results .

The Queen of England has become the world's newest environmentalist. After noticing the impact of changing weather on the landscaping of her beloved estates, she is urging Prime Minister Tony Blair to lobby on behalf of the world's climate in the United States. Read on here .