?TK | 9 March 2012 Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Frantisek Straka resigned as main coach of the Slavia Praha football team since the club’s fans did not accept him because he used to coach and play for Slavia’s traditional rival Sparta Praha in the past, he said yesterday. Straka made [...]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ? WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate in elections due next year despite being under virtual house arrest in England and facing criminal charges in Sweden, the group said Saturday. The 40-year-old Australian citizen is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he’s wanted over sex [...]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) ? Sudan will treat South Sudanese as foreigners from April, state media said Thursday, adding to uncertainty over the fate of 700,000 southerners living in the north six months after independence. South Sudan became Africa’s newest nation in July after a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war of the mainly [...]

New York ? Republicans all but dared the president to say no to a big Canada-to-Texas pipeline project, and Obama took the bait. A look at the fallout As part of last year’s payroll-tax deal, congressional Republicans squeezed a seemingly unrelated promise out of President Obama: Instead of punting until after the 2012 election, he’d [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2012) ? New research from Uppsala University shows that a specific brain region that contributes to a person’s appetite sensation is more activated in response to food images after one night of sleep loss than after one night of normal sleep. Poor sleep habits can therefore affect people’s risk of becoming overweight [...]