Something I forgot to post - prostitution is not illegal in Spain which surprised me for a catholic country - trafficking is illegal, pimping is illegal but prostitution itself is tolerated. The classified in papers - spanish and english - are very explicit. When driving in spain you often see......

Australia's 1 for 62 became 2 for 63 when Ponting fell for a duck - shame. The Afrikaners know that Ponting can't handle the fast men who swing the ball back in and Morkel exploited the weakness when he found an inside edge with a delivery that nipped back off......

Democrat Al Franken has taken the lead in the Minnesota Senate recount by 252 votes as of the end of counting yesterday. However, both parties withdrew some challenges which could yet be reinstated. The effect of withdrawing and then reinstating challenges is hard to oversee but the Star Tribune is....

Posted by Gosta Ljungman One of the more intriguing aspects of public policy making is the difficulty of maintaining healthy government finances. Not only is the short sighted temptation to spend now and pay later sometimes too hard to resist,......

I face the sack if I call this guy a twat - so here goes - he is a twat! Nathalie Lubbe Bakker was fired from her waitress job in NY after a Belgian government official rang her boss to complain about her blog. Nathalie, also a Belgian, said she......

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Coach Martin Johnson, hooker Lee Mears and No8 Nick Easter look ahead to Saturday's game against the Wallabies...

Politics - more like looning around having a jolly good time!...

Not the most exciting place I have ever been to but it is a bit quaint. It started well when I arrived at Lymington to get the ferry and the car alarm went off and it would not go off. Was not allowed on the ferry until the alarm would go off. We missed our ferry but got on the next. Car done 133000...

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, related another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully t...