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I see that a new packet of romantic Down Under hype is about to hit the fan. I'm referring, of course, to the much-awaited Australia sa...

In my mailbox this morning, I received a nasty trick, stuck away in the cobwebs of the back pages of the latest issue of Scientific American...

Here in France, many people are holding their breath, anguished by the thought that something might happen in the unpredictable USA, between...

The old-fashioned American gesture of holding a hat over one's heart is hilarious, like the opening of some kind of Stetson song-and-dan...

Theoretically, George W Bush will of course continue to be the US president until the investiture of a new man—who, I hope, will be Barack ...

Last weekend, a major economic get-together took place in Beijing: the 7th ASEM [ Asia-Europe Meeting ]. This summit—which might be seen as...

At this time of the year, I often find one or two specimens of this exquisite mushroom on the lawn beneath my bedroom window. It's the C...

It often pays to memorize an important principle in the vivid form of a vulgar proverb. In Australia, where we've always had a healthy h...

That title is a little pompous. It sounds as if I'm about to evoke the latest Skyvington acquisition in the way of castles, manor houses...

This is the most recent and probably biggest ever work, on a post office wall in central London, of the secretive British graffiti artist Ba...

I'm including this photo just in case you've been out beyond the Solar System over the last few days, without Internet access: Funni...

Towards the end of the morning, I started to drive down towards Pont-en-Royans with the intention of posting a letter. No sooner did I reach...

Barack Obama recently received the endorsement of three great US newspapers: the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago T...

The morning temperature hasn't dropped to zero yet, so the Cournouze still looks basically greenish, even under a leaden sky full of lo...

Many years ago, my marvelous friend Marie [whom I encountered at a Paris computer fair, where we were both employed] told me about a trade ...

I've always disliked this expression, " body language ", because I simply hate the very idea that my physical carcass might be...

The latest news is that Lance Armstrong , after his comeback in the Down Under Tour in January, will be riding in next year's Giro d...

As an adolescent at high school in Grafton, I studied economics for no more than a year. It turned out to be a disturbing but mind-opening e...

This afternoon, while strolling up the road with Sophia , I encountered the fellow whose dog recently found truffles on my lawn. He was out ...

When I worked at Ilog in Gentilly (just outside Paris) and I annoyed my brilliant colleagues with nasty technical questions (mainly about U...