Returning to Heathrow from the madhouse tour of the States promoting ‘India Exposed’ provided catch-up time on news that may have slipped through the global net…
Italian tax authorities, pursuing Maradona’s unpaid tax bill when playing for Napoli FC, raided his Alpine chalet and confiscated his earrings. It’s a start, but he still owes $54 million.
When stumped for ideas writing the sequel to ‘The Da Vinci Code, author Dan Brown says he dons gravity boots “because you think differently upside down,” which might well explain his prose.
With patriotic pride, Texan Tom Nall has launched organic tequila in a bottle shaped like Texas. Trouble is, the tequila’s made in Mexico, and the bottle in China.
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah has pronounced on her husband, His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
“OK, I am biased,” she tweets, “but u gotta admit my King is kinda cool, no?”
Winners of the literature category in the latest Ig Nobel Awards are the Irish police who have issued 50 traffic tickets to visitor Prawo Jazdy which is Polish for ‘Driver’s License.’
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