Winners & Losers

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.