Well here’s one more reason some people might have for wanting Turkey as an eventual member of the EU:
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way - and it finally opens today…
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Wormholes are definitely out it seems:
The concept of wormholes will be familiar to anyone who has watched the TV programmes Farscape, Stargate SG1 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.[...]But the idea of building these so-called traversable wormholes is looking increasingly shaky, according to two new scientific analyses.

The referendum battle continues its course. Le Monde notes the importance of the fact that whilst the ‘no’ vote seems to be consolidating its lead in France (see this FT graph), with only one week to go one fifth of the votes still declare themselves to be ‘undecided’.
Meantime the normally sobre EU Observer, lets it [...]

According to the official version, Columbia University economist and well-known growth theorist Xavi Sala i Martin is in Beijing to give a paper at a meeting sponsored by the IMF. But my confidential sources (OK: I mean the newspaper ‘Sport’) here in Barcelona have another reading: the IMF meeting is a cover. Xavi - [...]

This is no joke. The danger of a mutation of the virus is a real and present risk. The EU decision is a prudent and intelligent one.
The European Union will on Friday take another step towards creating an early warning system to prevent, or at least to limit, an influenza pandemic by the launch of [...]

This story from a week ago frightens me greatly. The lack of attention it has gotten is remarkable.
?Until recently we would find giant ?chimneys? in the sea where columns of cold, dense water were sinking from the surface to the seabed 3,000 metres below, but now they have almost disappeared,? he said.
?As the water sank [...]

And in the end it wasn’t even closer - Europe win the 2004 Ryder Cup by nine points, the largest winning margin since 1981.

Juliana, former Queen of the Netherlands, has died aged 94

Procycling reports on the death of Marco Pantani - reaction here and here, a report on how and where he died is here

A scientist describes Saturn’s moon Titan as potentially looking ‘a bit like Sweden’. No comment is available from the Swedes at this time, but Norwegian comedians are reportedly working overtime