Voters in Romania are casting ballots in their country's first European parliamentary elections since it joined the European Union this year. As Stefan Bos reports from Budapest, among those participating is a Reformed bishop whose actions helped spark the 1989 revolution that ended decades of Communist rule. More than 18 million people are eligible to vote for Romania's 35 representatives in the European Parliament. The...
Why the Dickens shouldn't costume dramas be ethnically diverse?
The Guardian
The Guardian
The BBC's production of Little Dorrit will have a black actor playing Tattycoram - and about time too Freema Agyeman, who will play Tattycoram in this autumn's production of Little Dorrit Another autumn, another all-star BBC costume drama. This time...
Veteran officer named deputy chief of police
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
Veteran Windsor police officer Jerome Brannagan has been appointed the new deputy chief, effective immediately. Brannagan, 51, who started with the Windsor Police Service as a constable in 1980, has risen through the ranks to the position of...
There are many solitudes in the ethnic media, intended or not
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
Multiculturally, we're world class, Frances Bula claimed in The Vancouver Sun last December about the picture the 2006 census painted about immigration, citizenship, language and mobility. The percentage of foreign-born in Canada returned to a level...
Olympic flame on top of the world
TVNZ
TVNZ
May 8, 2008 The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday after days of weather-related delays, live TV showed....
In a culture war's latest skirmish, Afghan government bans 5 soap operas
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
: After four years of watching television programs test the boundaries of decorum and build devoted audiences in the process, conservatives in Afghanistan are striking back. In the latest battle of the long-simmering war between cultural...
Language no barrier for Tibetan songbirds
China Daily
China Daily
By Mu Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2008-04-26 09:51 At the recent 13th Central China Television Young Singers Competition, Tibetan vocalists displayed their unique interpretation of music, especially in the category of yuanshengtai, meaning "original,...
Afghans ban 5 indian soap operas
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
: After four years of watching television programs test the boundaries of decorum and build devoted audiences in the process, conservatives are striking back. In the latest battle of the long-simmering war between cultural conservatives and more...
Experts would pull the plug on teens' TV
STL Today
STL Today
By Sandra G. BoodmanTHE WASHINGTON POST Pediatricians and child development experts have repeatedly warned parents that putting a television set in a young child's bedroom is associated with a host of undesirable outcomes, including poorer school...
Gee, Beav, your mom is cool
The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte Observer
June Cleaver chosen America's top TV mother; Claire Huxtable second Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Growing up, who didn't look at their television and think, "Wow, I wish my mom were that cool"? The top mom that Americans would like to have had...

