Busy Day at the Newsroom

OK, 3 news clippets for you today. Smog from car fumes has become such a problem in the northern cities of Italy that they have actually banned cars completely on some days, and have an alternate-day policy depending on the car's registration number for the weekdays. All I can say is that it's going to be interesting to see who turns up at the office there. The best current method of solution seems like we're going back to witchcraft again: "Church leaders, led by the Bishop of Turin, have been praying for rain".

In the Basque region of northern Spain there are protests under way by the inhabitants against the bombing campaign that ETA terrorists are currently undertaking against journalists. More info from the this BBC page.

And finally, on a lighter note, an american woman on a plane to New York flushed the toilet before getting up and as the vacuum cleaned out the contents, it also stuck her in that position. Cabin crew could not get her out, and she had to wait 2 hours before landing when the ground crew gave a hand.

A quick change of topic; I signed up for the gym yesterday, and will now be getting back into shape after 6 months of doing nothing more than sporty writing notes during lectures. Oh, and if anyone is interested, I have put up my new timetable here so that you can SMS me during my lectures. Just don't do it during my exam !!!

New week, new labour (work, that is).