Bush in Europe

WNP European correspondent Paul Kieffer flew into Frankfort on the day President Bush visited Mainz. The delay in flights at the airport inspired some comments on the Bush trip to Europe. Read about the visit of the "distant friend" .

Flu Pandemic

There's a lot of discussion right now about avian flu and a possible pandemic that could be unleashed if the H5V1 virus finds a way to jump to humans and rapidly replicate itself. The means of developing a vaccine are very slow. Millions could die before one could be developed. Here is an article in today's Financial times that is scary.