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Hijacking

Apparently a Turkish aircraft which hijacked by possibly Islamic terrorists has landed in Brindisi in the south of Italy.  Two Turks hijacked the plane in protest at the Pope’s

The Pope says sorry

Good, bit late, but at least he did apologise.  Still, it was an odd mistake for someone considered to be an ‘intellectual heavyweight‘ to make,

Lebanon

I feel sorry for this area and its inhabitants. It sounded as if it had just about got over the last episode of violence. Things

Those terrible toons

Perhaps, despite howling 'free speech rights' and all that stuff, the Danish newspaper that published these now infamous cartoons could have chosen a better period

Ariel Sharon

When my other half heard about Sharon's first stroke, she commented that maybe he had been poisoned. Bearing in mind the radical changes he has

Playing chicken

Mild panic over here over the 'Chicken Flu'. Lots of adverse publicity has caused sales of chicken based products to plummet – and, in turn

Bombs in London

My other half rang me to say that their had been reports of bombs going off in London and these reports were all confirmed by

Tsunami

This is just a little extra post to mention the place where I, er, borrowed the HTML and image to use as means to allow