ANOTHER HOLIDAY RUINED BY CROCODILES

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An acclaimed outdoorsman who wrote movingly about testing himself against nature is presumed dead after a crocodile snatched him from his kayak while he led an American expedition from the source of the White Nile into the heart of Congo.

You're not safe anywhere these days.

REVIEW

The first thing that strikes you about the iPhone4 is how unlike it is to the Reverend Ian Paisley. Its compact design and slick curves bear little resemblance to the crag-faced unionist leader. And its new operating system allows it to run more than 50,000 applications, unlike Paisley, who can’t run any applications, and whose operating system hasn’t been upgraded since his birth in 1926.

But you can’t compare Apples with Orangemen.

I just worked out a solution to the European debt crisis, but I’m not going to tell anyone what it is.

WIKILEEKS

Bradley Manning, the prime suspect in the leaking of the Afghan war files, raged against his US Army employers before he allegedly downloaded thousands of secret memos. The US Army intelligence analyst, who is half British, went to school in Wales...

TODAY IN HISTORY

It was 200 years ago today that Bogota rebelled against the Spanish crown, laying the foundations for the wealth and stability that Colombia has enjoyed since.

If the Spanish crown were still here, the Colombian success story simply would not have been possible.



Colombians living their life of love and laughter, free from the Spanish crown.

Trouble is brewing in Russia.

GOLDMAN SACHS MAKES BILLIONS SHORTING GOLDMAN SACHS STOCK

I was shocked and dismayed –I think we all were- to learn that Goldman Sachs had been involved in whatever it was they did. I had always ranked them with unlicensed boxing promoters and taxi drivers in Cairo, as people who inspire one with absolute confidence.

I was visiting my poor mother in Somerset when I heard the news.

"You’re never going to believe this," I told old Longbottom the farmer. "Goldman Sachs defrauded investors out of more than $1bn by mis-marketing toxic sub-prime mortgage-related securities."

He looked at me with tears in his honest, weather-beaten old face.

"I don't understand it," he said, "but I know it's wrong".