FRIENDS used to ask our advice on holidays. Because of our disastrous record they wanted to know where we were going and when so that they could avoid it.
WHEN Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell at the National Institute of Feminine Orientation, a prison perched on a hill in this city of slums on the out
SOME years ago I remember reading an interview with a woman in which she praised the invention of the hands-free mobile phone. It wasn't so that she could drive and talk.
A FRIEND of mine was recently whingeing about his staff job. He didn't think he could face another year of it - how every day was the same, stretching into meaningless inf
MAR a bhios iad ag ràdh, tha deamocrasaidh ann agus tha deamocrasaidh ann. Agus cha bu chòir feart sam bith a thoirt dhan rannsachadh-beachd a rinneadh mu sgoil Ghàidhlig air
LAST week Iran indulged in an embarrassing (for the ayatollahs) display of damp-squib pyrotechnics, when it claimed to have test-fired nine missiles as part of the mil
IN THESE days of national self-doubt, it's good to know there's one thing we Brits do better than anyone else. Our national teams may not qualify for the European cham
DRIVING through the streets of Glasgow East, the names pop out at you: St Mary of the Assumption; Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart; St Paul's; and, in the middle of
STRANGE how those TV chefs' programmes and columns lovingly describing recipes and restaurants do not provoke the obvious effect, tastebuds remain untingled, not a drop of
APPROACHING a certain age, I must at some stage have logged on to certain websites, looking for financial or other advantages of entering my sixth decade. Having found there w
