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Poland has been forced to deny its foreign minister 'joked' that President-Elect Barack Obama's grandparents were cannibals. Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as saying: "Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His grandfather ate a Polish missionary." A spokesman for the Polish foreign office conceded that Mr Sikorski had made the controversial comment, but denied that the foreign minister had intended to insult Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan. Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has made no comment on the affair. It appears that Mr Sikorski's position is not...

The gal pal of New York Times plagiarist Jayson Blair says she disagrees with the "offensive statements he's been making" - and only recently figured out that the scandal has ruined her credibility. "When Jayson was caught, it came as a big shock and betrayal to the world as well as to me," Zuza Glowacka writes in the current issue of Newsweek. Glowacka, 23, resigned from her job as a Times news clerk after Blair was caught plagiarizing and fabricating stories. He was forced to resign from the paper, which has been thrown into turmoil by the scandal. Since her...