Slipknot Bassist In Trouble With Drugs
OK, kid's. Let's go over this one more time. If you're carrying around coke, pot, and a trunkful of other drug related stuff in your car, don't run the red light.

Colombian drug lord's playland turns into a hippo haven
Pablo Escobar was killed ten years ago in a hail of gunfire, ending his reign as Columbia's cocaine kingpin. His collection of exotic hippos, however, lives on...

Cuban agents try to monitor, inhibit journalists with threats
"I was given three options: to stop writing, leave the country or go to jail," said Ivan Garcia, 37, from his second-floor apartment where he writes his news stories in longhand. "The government is unpredictable. They may summon you and nothing happens, or they may arrest you."

U.S.-Cuba scientific relations transcend politics
Since the mid 80's, when Castro decided Cuba needed to be more than a tourist hot spot to survive, the country has pursued biotech aggressively. It's already a source for high quality engineered medicines. Now they're busy importing US experts as consultants, too. Bruce Sterling's Islands In The Net, anyone? Those who remember that book will notice its heavy influences on my own Havana Moderne project.

Europe closes in on a constitution
You think we have it tough? Try writing a constitution from scratch for all of Europe.