"...or that you seem to be losing."

One of the most memorable parables for the modern world was created, unwittingly, by the great cartoonist Bill Watterson.( Read more... )

You couldn't make it up dept. no.32: people-smugglers with good taste.

In the last few days, the Spanish State Police have been busy breaking up a gang of Spanish and Rumanian criminals who smuggled prostitutes into the kingdom. In the course of one raid, they retrieved an oldish looking violin.

It was one of about 500 known existing violins by the eighteenth-century maker Stradivari, and literally beyond price.