After Australia held an official day of mourning for the 200+ people who have lost their lives in the recent bush fires, some fires have reignited close to Melbourne that now threaten properties and people on the fringes of the city. The ferocious heatwave isn’t over yet, and you can read an article by Australian author [...]

Dubai’s ambition really is breathtaking. This tiny desert state, little more than a fishing village in the 1960s before it discoved oil in 1966, is running out of it fast, and is spending like there is no tomorrow.

The World Economic Forum has been taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland. It usually makes the headlines a bit more than it has done this week, though according to pundits quite a few big hitters have stayed at home crying into their spreadsheets, with the attendees wandering from seminar to seminar trying to remain [...]

Today is a big day for America (and much of the rest of the western world) as President elect Obama finally takes office and tries to put right the wrongs bequeathed to him by the media’s favourite Presidential clown George W Bush. We are all used to seeing articles like this one – ‘The top [...]

Oh dear, the cruise line P&O has had an unfortunate clash of customers on their recent Caribbean cruise on the Ventura – the UK’s biggest cruise ship launched recently by Dame Helen Mirren. Some of the statistics for the Ventura are mind boggling – £330 million to build, 116,000 tons, cabins for 3,600 passengers and [...]

   The great escape of all 155 people on the Airbus that was forced down by a suspected bird strike in New York yesterday is a giant relief to everyone, and an incredible achievement by the pilot – Captain Chelsey B Sullenberger – who can now surely hang up his hat and go fishing for [...]

  With political correctness rampant in this great nation of ours, and even the blandest statement sending oversensitive types into a frenzy of indignation, thank goodness for the Czech Republic.In order to celebrate their accession to the EU presidency they commissioned a £350,000 sculpture from the unpredictable Czech artist David Cerny.