Dept. of Mad Dogs and …
HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters) — Seven men who enjoyed duck and caviar at more than 22,000 feet in the Himalayas pitched a claim Tuesday for the record highest altitude formal dinner.

Great title for a blog post, “If the past is another country, how about a declaration of independence?” Interesting cogitation behind the title, too.

Worried grumbling is a bit of a national sport here in Germany, and let me just say as a spectator that the game has rarely been as good as it is right now. Tune in any Sunday night to Christiansen for an action-packed match. Or, if you haven’t the time, let me give you a [...]

They did it.
Organizers of this summer’s Olympic Games in Athens have breathed a sigh of relief after the main stadium’s roof began its long-awaited slide into position. …
The IOC had given the Greek government until May 20 to slide into place the two huge arches — or abandon the project.
The project, which has already missed [...]

The revelation yesterday that the EU was planning to offer to eliminate its agricultural export subsidies in an attempt to revive progress in the Doha world-trade round may not be all it appears to be. Astute readers of my post yesterday on China’s global impact may have noted the following:
“In the first place the [...]

Via the Young Fogey, here’s an amusing website that ranks and grades the various flags of the world. What grade does your country get?

It had already been assumed that the European Commission and the Council of Ministers would go ahead with the EU-US airline data (PNR) transfer agreement (.pdf) despite the European Parliament’s decisison to wait for a Court of Justice ruling. But now Edward Hasbrouck has it in writing: according to a US Department of [...]

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief”
Not in Namangan Viloyati (Uzbekistan) you’d have thought there wasn’t. But again I am obviously wrong. Man - sorry person - hole covers have been disappearing all over the Namangan region according to this link-up I’ve just discovered with the Argus.
The global [...]

Have you checked the manhole covers in your street lately? Maybe it would be a good idea to take a quick look: just in case. The reason this might be an advisable course of action is that hot on the heels of those other two Asian scare stories ? Sars, and chicken flu ? comes [...]

Well following my post last week about Vodaphone and 3G in Europe there seems to be more news today that backs-up the argument questioning the economic viability of the thing.
Firtsly shares of NTT DoCoMo, the world’s No. 2 mobile-phone and the leading 3G operator, just had their biggest one-day drop ever after the company said [...]