Here’s a challenge. How fast could you pay your mortgage off? The sad realisation hit me earlier in the year that I’m not likely to get rich anytime soon. I know – why did I even think that would happen?

A stately British doctor taps a gentleman on the shoulder yesterday at the Museum of Fine Arts. The man and his wife are strolling the exhibition "Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000,'' examining one of fashion photographer Richard Avedon 's most iconic 1957 portraits of model Suzy Parker roller skating in a Dior coat with a handsome male model, Robin Tattersall , at ... Richard Avedon - Photography ...

Prosecutors have pressed terrorism charges against Shiite opposition activists in Bahrain, raising tension in the run-up to an October 23 election in the Gulf state where a Sunni royal family rules a mainly Shiite population.

What just happened? At the time, all we knew was the world economy was about to disappear down the toilet. Now, in books and movies, people are beginning to make sense of the credit crunch, the past few years of financial turmoil. And as the fog of confusion clears, here comes the anger. Because what happened seems pretty outrageous.

The Ministry of Indoctrination This past week Ethiopia's Ministry of Education issued a "directive" effectively outlawing distance learning (or education programs that are not delivered...