Migration… Facebook users are reportedly white and wealthy while MySpace users are black, uneducated and obnoxious. A “white flight” to Facebook has turned MySpace into a black ghetto, according to a social analyst in the US. Danah Boyd said Facebook’s arrival sparked a migration from MySpace of white users, the educated and the wealthy, while non-whites had stuck together on... 

Women in Malmö have been given the right to bathe topless in the swimming pools of Sweden’s third largest city. The city’s sports and recreation committee voted on Wednesday against a motion entitled: “Women with two-piece swimsuits ought to wear a top piece”. The committee eventually settled on the wording that “everybody should wear bathing suits” at Malmö pools... 

Possession of pornography is now a criminal offense in Ukraine, Lenta.ru reports, after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a law to that effect today. Human rights activists and members of the Ukrainian artistic community had asked the president to veto the law. The draft of the law was prepared by the Ukrainian government. It was passed by the Ukrainian parliament, the Supreme Rada,... 

Britain has an even worse violence rate than South Africa Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries. The figures comes on the day new... 

The fallout from a custody row over Michael Jackson’s three children intensified today after fresh claims that neither Jackson nor ex-wife Debbie Rowe are the biological parents of any of the children. Jackson also never filed any papers to formally adopt any of the children, according to U.S. media reports today. Rumours have long circulated about the true parentage of Prince Michael, 12,... 

Reports are conflicting over whether the Jewish mother of two of the late Michael Jackson’s children will seek custody. Jackson, the “King of Pop” who died Friday of unspecified causes, and Debbie Rowe are the parents of Prince Michael I, 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11. By virtue of having a Jewish mother, they are considered Jewish. According to London’s Sunday Times,... 

Could you imagine that the above people are called “English” and “German”? They are just two foreigners dressed up in European clothes. Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has said the England camp is “buzzing” ahead of their European Under-21 Championship final against Germany in Malmo, Sweden, on Monday. Stuart Pearce’s men booked their place in the final with a... 

Dead Michael Jackson Michael Jackson was bald, barely eating and his stomach contained only partially-dissolved pills when he died, autopsy details reveal. His hips, thighs and shoulders were pock-marked with needle wounds, believed to be the legacy of narcotic painkillers being injected three times a day, a post-mortem examination showed. The once athletic star had dropped to a ‘severely emaciated’... 

The ACLU is demanding that schools in Michigan stop expelling violent out of control students. Claiming that it has to be white people’s fault that some black students are committing violent crimes and getting kicked out of school! Schools are not using enough discretion under Michigan’s zero-tolerance expulsion law and are disproportionately kicking out black students who ultimately end... 

Michael Jackson was taking a devastating cocktail of drugs in the weeks before his sudden death, it has emerged. The singer was said to be taking three powerful painkillers all at the same time, when more than could be potentially fatal, and was also consuming vast quantities of other pills every day. It is claimed Jackson, 50, was injected with the powerful painkiller Demerol – a synthetic... 

Heidi Fleiss Hollywood’s latest celebrity madam Michelle Braun, whose alleged clients and charges put Heidi Fleiss to shame, has reached a deal with prosecutors that should keep her out of jail. But it leaves Tinseltown in a frenzy because the deal apparently involves handing over her little black book to the authorities. Filling the void left by the collapse of Heidi Fleiss’s empire in... 

Gaza’s hospitals are used to treating victims of rocket attacks and gunfire. But now their waiting rooms are increasingly filled with severely malnourished children. Since Israel imposed a blockade on the strip following the Hamas takeover a year ago, families have been struggling to feed their children. Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports from Gaza.  Read More »

African-Americans really like President Obama, but more and more feel that race relations have not gotten better since he took office, a new national poll found. Ninety-six percent of African-Americans approve of how Obama is handling his presidency, according to a CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday. During the 2008 election, 38 percent of blacks surveyed thought racial... 

(CNN) — Entertainer Michael Jackson has died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, according to multiple reports including the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. CNN has not confirmed his death. A Los Angeles fire official told CNN that paramedics arrived at Michael Jackson’s home after a 911 call. Jackson, 50, had been in a coma at the hospital,... 

A woman collapsed and died from a blood clot just three months after she started taking a new contraceptive pill. Helen Schofield was not told of the risk of deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, when her GP prescribed Dianette for her heavy periods. Because the drug also works as a contraceptive, the 33-year-old stopped taking her existing pill, Celeste. But three months later, Miss Schofield collapsed as...