Baseball in Iraq was born following the US-led invasion of 2003, and like other attempts to infuse American culture, it hasn't been entitrely successful, Al Jazeera English takes up the story.

As if Sarah Palin's gubernatorial farewell wasn't enough, she has now made the transition to civilian twitterato. But the scariest thing about this video, from Wednesday night's NBC Tonight Show, is not Ms Palin's tweeting, but the fact that under all that cosmetic architecture, William Shatner is 78 years old:

When I showed this to my daughter, she wanted to watch it over and over and over and over again. Still doesn't want to eat cucumbers though.

With King Canute Rudd's decision to hold back global warming for one year because of the GFC, Al Jazeera English reports on the pitfalls facing Australia's renewable energy industry.