h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

s'bad enough with all those primates and now you say there are pachyderms to? It'll be a veritable zoo at the Lambeth do!

I figure the pachyderms should help raise the level of debate.

(that's the noise a pachyderm makes when laughing with a trunk full of water, in case you were wondering!)

Cherie Blair says she fears for her children's safety on streets - Tories call it "a sad indictment".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7484103.stm

I noticed she was introduced as Cherie Booth on Ch4 News

half way through his term they started doing that so tony could distance himself from her blunders

Wrestling's Jamaican star - from Ghana

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7469398.stm

That's just sad!!

"Britain's biggest union, Unite, is merging with the US-based United Steelworkers union (USW) to create a new "global" union."

Crikey.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7484639.stm

watching on cnn

Bulldozer rampage hits Jerusalem
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7485022.stm

I was watching that on BBC News but the excessive live footage of nothing happening and spurious, uninformed speculation was getting on my nerves.

I saw it too

Ha! For totally spurious non-news, how about today's offering from the Telegraph?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2230480/Vogue-editor-Anna-Wintour-wears-same-dress-three-times.html

RF

Gold found in Monaghan (where I'm from)... unfortunately not on my dad's land so it seems I'm not rich enough to quit after all

welcome to cucumber time in news...

Sydney police warn: Don't annoy papal pilgrims

'The laws have the potential to make a crime of things such as wearing a T-shirt with an anti-Catholic message, handing out condoms at protests, or even playing music, said critics.'

What happened to freedom of speech/opinion?

Oops, forgot the link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSYD1611920080701?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

What's wrong with handing out condoms? We all know that they're full of holes and don't work anyone: the Pope said so so it must be true.

US embarrassment over Mandela terrorist 'threat'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/02/2292323.htm

'Because the United States was interested in conducting various arrangements with that Apartheid government it was thought necessary to put the ANC on there.'

About time they took Mandela off the terrorist list!

He was a terrorist. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and all that...

Patient ignored to death - in a hospital!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07012008/news/regionalnews/patient_ignored_to_death_117964.htm