A presidential birthday isn’t all that bad — just think Marilyn Monroe crooning “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy. But if President Barack Obama wants to make his 48th birthday today a happy one, he would be advised not to look at photos of how his predecessors aged in office.
Neither the spokesman for [...]

* A special thanks to subcorpus for bringing our attention to this interesting story and video to go with the story President Nasheed visits Café Alfresco.

Barack Obama dropped in Saturday afternoon for a bite to eat with Washington’s mayor, Adrian Fenty, at Ben’s Chili Bowl, the venerable diner in Washington’s U Street district.
Obama said it [...]

July 4 (Bloomberg) — Myanmar’s military junta blocked Ban Ki-moon from meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the United Nations chief seeks to free political prisoners in the country.
The regime announced the decision after a second meeting between the UN head and Myanmar leader Than Shwe in the capital of Naypyidaw, Agence [...]