Saturday's football as it happened (BBC News)
Liverpool beat Fulham in the Premier League's evening game after a frantic day of FA Cup first-round action....more...The streak is over: Navy sinks Notre Dame (WNDU 16 South Bend)
The Irish fall to 1-8, and set a school record of five straight losses. The Midshipmen of Navy triumph over the Irish for the first time since 1963 with a 46-44 loss in three overtimes....more... The In-Between Woman (New York Review of Books)
An article by Cathleen Schine from The New York Review of Books, November 22, 2007...more... Reading this may just save your life, if cancer experts are right (The Scotsman)
BACON, smoked ham and processed sausages are a cancer threat and should be cut from people's diet altogether, according to the world's most comprehensive study of the disease....more... Brown feels heat as Libdems and Tories seek answer to West Lothian question (The Scotsman)
IT WAS always the unfinished business of devolution. Yesterday it returned to haunt Gordon Brown. First posed by Tam Dalyell 30 years ago, the West Lothian Question was left unanswered when Labour created the Scottish Parliament in 1999....more... Television movies for the week of Oct. 28 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
A list of movies on TV for the week....more... Tackle planet's problems or humanity at risk, says UN (The Scotsman)
THE survival of humanity could be under threat by the failure to address global problems such as climate change, extinction of species and unsustainable development, a UN report warned yesterday....more... 'There was no Armenian genocide' (The New Statesman)
Contrary to the Armenian allegations, in fact, there is no consensus among the historians and legal experts to qualify the events of 1915 as ?genocide?....more... Brian Coleman (The New Statesman)
The deaths of a couple of dozen Turkish troops in operations against the Kurds and the vote by the Turkish Parliament to in effect invade Northern Iraq to pursue operations against the Kurdish people has focused world attention on a conflict which the modern state of Turkey has pursued for many decades....more... |