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THE timing of it! How unfair can it be?” Gilly Hyde clamped her hands to the sides of her head in despair, and immediately regretted it. She had spent an hour on her hair that morning. She took her ha

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

Clegg in Silicon Valley When Nick Clegg accepted ...

My memories of living in Calgary, the Cowboy Capital of Western Canada, where I was born and lived until the age of five, are few and far between. Naturally, only the most significant moments of that

SPACE:1999 Celebrating 50 years of the sci-fi ...

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig