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A long time ago, a TV ad for a detergent for washers demonstrated how you could squirt tomato ketchup onto a dish towel, then tie it in knot...

For the moment, it's impossible to guess what might or might not happen between now and the end of the conference in Copenhagen. Meanwhi...

If ever you imagined that the only thing to be seen at St-Marcellin is their famous cheese, then the information I'm about to reveal wil...

The Google Maps squad arrived in town. Apparently in the first week of April 2009. They've worked through my street—that's to say, ...

The word "muddle" seems right to me. It evokes mud. Dry mud. On the eve of the Copenhagen summit, the behavior of Australia's ...

Late Saturday afternoon, my dog Sophia raced out into the dark and started to bark in the direction of the crest of the hill up behind our ...

I've just received my invitation to use Google Wave, which might be described as a new kind of shared email tool. It's particularly ...

A bulky report, published yesterday, reveals the findings of a nine-year probe into child abuse in Ireland's Catholic institutions. The ...

I've just received a phone call from my son François , from the Paris airport. He's about to step onto a plane for Perth in Western ...

Today, November 24, is the 150th anniversary of the publication of a celebrated book: Its author was Charles Darwin [1809-1882]. On the web...

As some of my readers know, I've been puzzled for ages by what I call the Australian infrastructure enigma , which can be summarized by ...

If you ask French people what they were taught at school in the way of English, they'll often reply that they learned how to say "M...

To complete the future rose garden that I've been creating, which will comprise two dozen different bushes, I needed to obtain the final...

Herman Who? Baroness What? Herman Van Rompuy , that's who : the 62-year-old prime minister of a charming land named Belgium, with two c...

Australians are special people. When I returned to my native land in 1985 for a lengthy stay, I was alarmed to discover that many of my comp...

I've finished the construction of my rose pergola. The final tasks consisted of reinforcing the four corners with diagonal struts, to ma...

Normally, here in France, I live in a warm aura of admiration of the overall intelligence, culture, worldliness, common sense and (last but ...

My Aussie compatriot Rupert Murdoch —infinitely richer than me, like all these self-made Waltzing-Matilda true-blue buggers—is raging. He ha...

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a 39-year-old Australian. Not an adoptive Australian, like me and my millions of white compatriots. An authe...

Keenly-awaited revelations are being made at present (which means right now) by 82-year-old Charles Pasqua , former French minister of the I...