Martin Luther King Day parades For the first time, Tampa's big parade will visit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in an obvious, if overdue, pairing starting at noon today. More than 15,000 spectators came to the event last year. And St. Petersburg's band-heavy parade will start off at Third Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South at 1:15 p.m. and is expecting some 50,000 people. There's also a rally in downtown Clearwater's Coachman Park at 11 a.m.

Dancing with the Stars Brazilian heartthrob Helio Castroneves is back with his dancing shoes instead of his racing helmet.

How Kevin Federline took his place among the world's most powerful men

Yes, the radical Shia cleric can only manage eighth spot, marked down for what we can only assume is an absence of cod-mystical tattoos and his failure to "bring it" in console-related activity.

Bad news, too, for YouTube founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley (13), and there'll be tears before bedtime in Syria, whose president, Bashar Assad, limps in at 21. Nothing's upsetting the High School Musical imperium, though: a bunch of dancing kids top the entire list.

But it's K-Fed's showing that effectively skyrockets the exercise to No 1 in the list of Stupidest Power Lists Ever - a position previously held by British GQ for claiming that David Beckham was more powerful than Rupert Murdoch. (And this was in 2001, before David bought all the satellites. I suppose the equivalent nowadays would be observing that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page lack the clout of Frank Lampard.)

Anyways, foolhardy readers may ask, what of Britney, the Melinda Gates to K-Fed's Bill? Well, this week we have rumours of a far east adoption raid, and a detailed description of the singer's "fantasy room", a specially designated sex room in her Mulholland Drive home.

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TRINIDAD: They Played, They Lost, Everybody's Happy

We are now more inspired than ever to take on the world," he said at a ceremony honouring the players on the weekend.

Last September, the Trinidad and Tobago government said the output from the LNG sector was estimated at 15.1 metric tones per year (mtpa), positioning the oil-rich nation as one of the leaders in LNG production in the world.

The government said output in the petro-chemical sector was also expected to expand sharply with the commissioning of at least five new plants.

Manning said the first trade and cultural mission is scheduled to depart for Europe by the end of July, and it will include a steel band and a cultural contingent representing the nation's diversity and professionals to sell the country.

"The team's performances have massively lifted the country out of the third world mindset.

Notes following media briefing by Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad, Media ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 4 January 2008 said peacekeeping, pre-emptive diplomacy, climate change and improving the lot of poor countries, as well as internal reform, will be high on the United Nations agenda for 2008.

South Africa welcomes the comments by the UN Secretary-General that the United Nations is indispensable and "multilateralism is alive and well and in greater demand than ever – that people look to us for global solutions to global problems".

We welcome this because the South African government has been arguing for some time that especially, post 9/11, multilateralism and its institutions were being weakened and that unilateral actions were being taken by the more powerful countries and this was creating greater threats to stability throughout the world.