► Cain catches flak, but will it sink his candidacy? Herman Cain denies he's changed his story as he struggles to contain the fallout from sexual harassment allegations from the 1990s when he led the National Restaurant Association
► Europe Needs Democrats, Not Technocrats Left and Right should join forces against the great euro takeover. "The moment of truth is approaching”, said David Cameron on Thursday. But what is the truth?
► Global Affairs Mash Up: Financial-Economic Leader and Humanitarian Our special guest Cristal Montanez, executive director of Hashoo Foundation USA, was recognized for her work as a humanitarian. Cristal leads initiatives to promote women’s empowerment, particularly through a farming project, known as Plan Bee
► Havel, Czech Writer Who Led Revolution, Dies Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who served time in Czechoslovakia’s communist prisons before leading a revolution that ushered democracy into central Europe and hoisted him into the Czech presidency, has died.
► Inevitable implosion In 2002, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that building a European Union superstate “will seem in future years to be perhaps the greatest folly of the modern era.” Less than a decade later, she’s being proved right
► Newt Gingrich: I won’t win Iowa NDEPENDENCE, Iowa —Though there’s a day left until the Iowa caucus voting starts, Newt Gingrich says he’s already counting himself out for the top spot
► North Korea: A death, and an opportunity The passing of Kim Jong Il — who once imported Italian chefs to build a state-of-the-art pizza oven for himself during a famine in his country — could provide a glimmer of hope for the North Korean people
► Rajoy Gain in Spain May Be Poisoned Chalice as Yields Rise “Rajoy has reached this point thanks to both his merit and the lack of merit of others,” said Pablo Onate, general secretary of the Spanish Political Science Association in Madrid.
► Reports of Chávez's Illness Cloud Campaign Documents from intelligence services of two countries suggest Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's cancer has spread to his bones and is more aggressive than his government has reported
► WOLF: Tea Party rising for Newt Gingrich Democrats dismissed the Tea Party in 2010 and took a historic shellacking. Republicans would be wise to learn from their mistake
