Winners
William Zabka: Bad guy "Johnny" from The Karate Kid makes a comeback on YouTube.
Al Gore: Global warming is big news, and now the unlikely matinée idol of An Inconvenient Truth gets nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Taliban: Back and stronger than ever in southern Afghanistan.
Heat-tolerant Belgian cyclists: Wilfried Cretskens wins the sixth annual Tour of Qatar.
Hugo Chávez: Just days after winning the power to rule by decree, the "non-dictator" announced plans to nationalize all oil projects in the country by May 1.
Losers
Palestinian unity: Eleven Palestinians die in Gaza as another Hamas-Fatah ceasefire crumbles.
British childhood innocence: Harry Potter, erotic star of the stage?
Paul Wolfowitz: First, there was the embarrassing sock incident. Now, the World Bank president is under siege by his own board.
AEI: Washington think tank busted for offering 10 Gs to anyone willing to cast doubt on global warming.
Tony Blair: The cash-for-peerages scandal threatens to bring him down, er, sooner.
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