About 100 men in their 20s and 30s, filled a conference room at a Dublin hotel last week to hear a migration agent describe the personal fortunes waiting to be made a world away in the booming mining towns of the Australian outback. With unemployment running at close to 15 percent in Ireland, and local wages a fraction of those now on offer in Australia, it appeared to be an easy sell. “I want... 

Who ratted out First Lady Michelle Obama for getting VIP treatment while shopping in Paris last month with her daughters? That would be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The issue: Getting a store usually closed on Sundays to open for her. The cautious Mrs. Obama, who carries a limited, strategically applied issues portfolio, is now caught up–unwittingly–in a domestic debate in France...