The Winter Olympic Games starts today in Vancouver, Canada.

Traian Băsescu is re-elected President of Romania. The opposition states that it will contest the results on account of alleged electoral fraud.

Retarded people are still here/there/ among us. How is that possible that we still hear and have to accept people talking crazy? How sad is that. I feel terribly sorry for all good people of Russia who have to call that person 'a president'. The sad truth is that after thousands years of democracy, liberty and there are still creatures like a Putin guy who are in charge of anything. Plus he's ugly either. Read more - http://bit.ly/4Hh8KS

We have the new president of Uruguay. Actually we will have from March next year. José Mujica is the man that is going to be the head of this beautiful country. José Mujica is a quite controversial figure. As a member of an armed political groups he was convicted of killing a police office back in the 60's.

Welcome to Around the World blog. Shortly what this blog is about. It's going to be about what is going on around the world. We're not going to talk much about what is going on in the US or any other major countries that news from you can find everywhere. We're going to focus on news from places that you do not see on the first page of newspaper every day. Hope you enjoy that!