“I’m glad to be here, in general, because when the Live Aid concert happened 20 years ago, I was pretty much a self-obsessed drug addict”
Sir Elton John explains why he is pleased to be taking part in Live 8
“The American people know why I nominated him — because the UN needs reform, and I thought it made sense to send a reformer to the United Nations”
George Bush remains adamant that John Bolton should become US Ambassador to the UN, despite the blocking, for the second time in a month, of the President’s nomination
“During the search, Customs officers became suspicious after hearing noises coming from the vicinity of her waist”
An Australian Customs official recalls the moment a woman was arrested for trying to smuggle dozens of live tropical fish into Australia by hiding them under her skirt
“You could fit a Volkswagen in that thing”
Ian Michaels, a spokesman with New York’s Department of Environmental Protection, on the 20ft (6m) by 15ft chasm that has appeared in the middle of the city’s Midtown section. The crater formed after underground water damage