21-year-old Saudi woman faces a battery with a hate crime enhancement charge after telling police she spit on several Walmart customers because "Americans are pushing us around."

Terry Rakowski, 39, thought she was being helpful  when she told the woman in the religious head covering and pink burqa that she was using the wrong door to get into Walmart. Instead, the 39-year-old Palm Bay, Fla., resident said the woman looked at her and spit in her face before she turned and rolled her cart into the store to go shopping."She just spit all over me. All I was trying to do was tell her she was coming in through the out door....

The French attitude to sex crime would shock the US

The French apparently regard the sight of a powerful politician in handcuffs to be more shocking than the possibility that an African immigrant chambermaid was imprisoned and sexually assaulted. That’s cultural variation for you.As my colleague Ben Brogan points out there may be some legitimate grounds in French legal terms for national outrage over Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s apparently ignominious treatment by the New York sex...