Reflections of a changed man The Australian Mayer, whose fifth album Born and Raised is released this weekend, is in temporary retirement from performing due to a recurrence of an illness he developed last year. The 34-year-old New York-based singer, guitarist, writer and occasional stand-up ... |
 New York Times | Europe enveloped in murky politics of austerity Hindu Business Line What to make of the recent developments in France where the xenophobic anti-immigration, anti-euro National Front party of Ms Marine Le Pen scored a whopping 18 per cent in the first round of the presidential elections on April 22 — its best electoral ... Labour's French lessons from François Hollande |
 Haaretz | France turns left – a rocky road ahead Haaretz The nation Hollande now leads is fractured and muddled – the fact that his party's traditional voters, the working class, gave more votes to Marine Le Pen's far-right Front National in the first round of voting should serve as a severe warning that the ... French election: Trailing Sarkozy makes last-minute appeal for votes Hollande or Sarkozy: that is the question |
Pen Argyl, Becahi get top softball seeds and a week off Allentown Morning Call After winning a pair of one-run games to win the Colonial League championship last week, Pen Argyl softball coach Bill Schankel looked and sounded like a guy who could use some time off. "I'm getting too old for these kind of games," the veteran coach ... |
 Globe and Mail | Analysts say the austerity crisis is only one factor in the far right's rise ... CNN International But the strong showing by far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the presidential election undoubtedly played into campaigning, with both candidates reaching out to the 6.5 million voters who backed her. Francois Hollande's Freedom Fries |
