karachi 7-day forecast

This requires an old-style BBC accent: tue wed thu fri sat sun mon Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Awfully hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Awfully hot. Sunny. Hot. Sunny. Hot. High 98° F 94° F 99° F 97° F 99° F 98° F 94° F Low 74° F 74° F 76° F 75° F 75° F…

bomb-bins

Bins in most high-risk countries have generally been removed from public places and replaced either by hordes of gorgeous young scrubbers in gaudy green or by marginally less photogenic bomb-resistant containers, but I don’t think there’s even been any discussion of this here yet.

zap’s team

Here‘s El Mundo’s list of who they think’s going to be who in the new government. It’s all rather like a Labour government might have looked in the UK had they won in 83: an authoritarian Communist union boss at Employment, an EU Middle East hack who prefers leaders to citizens at Foreign Affairs (Spanish…

Kurdish language schools

This is cool, and not just because of the location: Some 3,000 people turned out for the opening ceremony on Sunday of one of Turkey’s first Kurdish language teaching centres in the mainly-Kurdish southeast of the country under EU-inspired reforms, the owner said. The centre in the city of Batman is set to begin classes…

The bishop and the train to Teruel

Ja se’n va el tren d’Olotfent xup, xup,se’n va el tren d’Olot. Surt quan voli arriba quan pot;fent xup, xup,se’n va el tren d’Olot.Popular The real news this morning is, as always, from Aragon. In a development that will bankrupt Ladbrokes when I collect, Chairman Alf/Warren Mitchell has led the Chunta Aragonesista to a 0.04…