In the early morning you could forgive Khoasan Road for being just another dirty, grimy, haze filled street stuffed with an oppressive blanket of heat that you could easily slice with a blunt knife. But it doesn't take long for the road to transform

A few weeks ago George Bush declared to the US people: 'today Iraq has more than 160,000 security forces trained and equipped for a variety of missions' and that more troops were on the way, almost implying that the war would be over by Christmas, as

An eight year old boy choked to death in a Malaysian fishing village last week when a live fish he'd caught with his bare hands suddenly leapt into his mouth and choked him to death. The desperate fish, endeavouring to escape, squirmed and flipped un

A man in Seattle died last week while indulging in anal sex with a stallion. The coroner ruled that the man had died as the result of a perforated colon, as the horse buggered him, literally, to death. The farm on which the 'accident' took place has

Hemp hound biscuits are taking off in a big way in Tasmania, Australia. The biscuits were the brainchild of entrepeneur Ian Rochfort on Flinders Island and is reputed to give hounds a glossier coat, healthy teeth and profoundly happier and more mello

The British Foreign Office has released the results of groundbreaking research on to why young 18-30 Britons go on holiday. A 79 page report costing $50,000 revealed that British youngsters go on holiday primarily to get a sun tan, get drunk, do drug

An animal rights group, Fish Empathy Project for PETA, this week expressed 'utter horror' when they discovered that fish was on the menu for vistors to an aquarium in Los Angelese. The spokesperson claimed that of all places that should be fish free

Parents of a Antwerp traffic accident fatality were shocked when they went to visit their child's grave to find that the grave diggers were holding their annual barbecue at the gravesite. A remorseful head gravedigger, Willy Inter, expressed his sorr

I sat on the bed, slowly calming down, feeling stupid, angry and shaking with an adrenalin rush.I'd found $50 in a pair of jeans I hadn't worn since I left Phnom Penh, a life-line. I had something like $5000 in my current account, the account linked

At such a sad time, more than enough words have been written and spoken about last weeks dreadful tragedy. Suffice then to say that me heart goes out for those who have lost loved ones. Such a death must be truly terrible, so much more so than a natu

I didn't so much awake the next day but gradually drift into and out of consciousness, fitfully emerging into the morning light ony hinted at by the heavy drawn drapes that concealed the ugliness of the Bangkok skyline without. Inch by resented inch

It all started innocently enough, my usual routine, I arose breakfasted on some fruit, cheese and bread and caught up with the BBC world news. Then I went to the internet cafe, caught up with a fraction of my correspondence and eventually gave up and

Many Americans are understandably confused over the issues in Iraq, largely because of the lies and spin spun out by the right wing media, a spin so successfully executed that many Americans firmly believe that the media is hands of hairy left-wing l

Girls from the Riverside restaurant, Phnom Penh

Bush gave an exrtaordinary speech last Tuesday. In effect he said little that was new to a audience that only cheered once. Let me repeat that - once. Normally a military audience such as that at Fort Bragg would cheer every syllable out of blind loy