Love this map [HT: Howard Weaver], which plotted 72,000 wire stories between 1994 and 1998. In population terms Chicago should be half the size of New York, but it comes out at only a fifth the size. But when your biggest cultural achievement is pizza, only doughier…

On 7 January, 2008, an Australian magazine reports: Prince Harry has joined his regiment on a covert mission to Afghanistan and his unit has already seen front line action. Not seen in public since the middle of December, New Idea can exclusively reveal that despite opposition from senior members of the British government and the…