Iraqis talk the talk
Radio Dijla is the country's first all-talk radio station. It deals with listeners' problems -- and there are a lot of them A housewife calls to talk about a broken sewer pipe. A student calls to talk about a lost love. A shopkeeper calls to say what he thinks of the violent insurgency that has swept his country.
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Behind the German lines: Laurel and Hardy
A German audience was treated to a rare 1931 film featuring the comic duo, unearthed from Moscow archives Film historians have found a rare Laurel and Hardy short that the famed comedy duo filmed for German audiences -- speaking their lines in phonetic German, according to the Munich Film Museum.
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Angels lose their halos in Bangkok
When the boys come out to play in Thailand's capital city, it means trouble In Thailand's City of Angels, the bad boys have come out to play. With their armories of guns, knives and home-made bombs, fierce fighting between feuding students in Bangkok has seen schools closed and public hand-wringing over the state of the nation's youth.
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