Holding all the cards, we play patience - Guardian Unlimited

These qualifiers are all very well, but it is a bit of a stretch to imagine any nation, should they manage to qualify, being able to afford to send a team to South Africa come 2010, should there be a South Africa to visit. There is doom everywhere ...

Family receives several gifts - Woodland Daily Democrat

Joaquin Galvan sits at a white dinning room table that was donated to him only a few days ago. His house is mostly empty except for a few charred books and religious pieces he picked from the ashes of his old home. Some more furniture is expected to ...

Bloody roots of the classic murder mystery revealed - The Independent

Multi-award-winning crime fiction writers Kate Summerscale and P D James put on an amusing double act at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival yesterday, considering their topics were throat-slitting, bludgeoning and hanging. James pointed out ...

I want my father's poem sung: Amitabh - Hindustan Times

His father's poetry and some dry fruits - that is all that Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan wants on his 66th birthday Saturday. "Instead of a cake, I would prefer a large portion of mevaa (dry fruits), followed by the singing of a wonderful poem ...

On the town: The party's not quite over ... - The Independent

Perhaps understandably, none of the City's financial institutions wanted to comment last week on their social calendar for the coming months On Thursday evening, even as EU summit leaders meet in Brussels to tackle the worst banking crisis in decades ...