Here’s a novel suggestion for how the government can help reduce the massive public deficit: sell Stonehenge. A survey of 500 estate agents, among other monuments studied, has placed the price of the ancient stone circle at a cool £51 million. It’s a drop in the ocean of the £156 billion gap between government income » Read More
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The savings of more than 100,000 people in Benin have been lost in a pyramid scheme, prompting calls for the President of the tiny West African country to be impeached after he appeared to endorse the investment scam. Thousands of families put money into Investment Consultancy and Computering Services (ICC) as word spread of its ability » Read More
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Having a babysitter called "The Sulphate Strangler"; being forsaken by your tour bus; having a father who'd rather grease party-guests' palms with opiates than grip your mother's clammy paw during childbirth. If you thought everyday kid-rearing was difficult, then blaze through a guide to rock'n'roll parenting and prepare to baulk. Except, well, there is no official » Read More
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The Ryder Cup recrimination duly followed the Ryder Cup rejection yesterday, with one member of the European Tour's board of directors accusing Colin Montgomerie of "bottling it" by selecting Padraig Harrington over Paul Casey and another of the wild-card picks, Luke Donald, slating the qualifying system. The Europe captain stated on Sunday that his dozen to » Read More
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French ornithologists are waging an increasingly sophisticated war against the hunting of the ortolan, a songbird which is regarded by gastronomes – when eaten beak, bones and all – as the ultimate in sinful pleasure. Over the next two weeks, bird lovers in south-west France will be systematically springing "live" traps set to capture the tiny » Read More
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It may be possible to devise a simple breath test for cancer that could be made available in a GP's surgery, scientists believe. In a small but successful study, a prototype breath test was able not only to detect cancer, but also to differentiate between the four most common forms of cancer: lung, bowel, breast and » Read More
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Would you be prepared to sacrifice your testicles, stomach fat or ears for the sake of high-class cuisine? A soon-to-open Berlin restaurant is touting for diners willing to do just that: donate body parts that it says it will turn into gourmet meals according to the age-old cooking habits of an Amazonian tribe infamous for » Read More
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French wine will soon be "like Coca-Cola", a senior French wine official said this week. The statement was not a complaint. It was a boast. A few years ago, such a declaration by a senior figure in the French wine industry would have been equivalent to the Vatican questioning the virgin birth of Christ. This » Read More
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With the Thames and a thousand memories, most of them concerning a certain Johnny Haynes, meandering by, Craven Cottage is surely one of the more agreeable football venues on earth. However, it was plainly not something worth mentioning to Fabio Capello this last Sunday afternoon. The Cottage, it is reasonable to assume, was pretty much his » Read More
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Thousands of young people gave up their scramble for a university place yesterday as the search for the few remaining vacancies intensified. UCAS, the university and college admissions service, revealed that nearly 8,000 would-be students had withdrawn from the clearing scheme during the past 24 hours. About 50,000 others rejected offers made to them – possibly from » Read More
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