Melbourne, Victoria's capital, was designed on a grand scale, with expansive streets and expensive stores, but somehow alleys and byways got bolted on. Now, says Michael Kerr, they are being rediscovered.

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A Chinese firm has decided Scorpios and Virgos are too moody and critical, telling job seekers with those star signs they need not apply. Capricorns, Pisces and Libras, on the other hand, are welcome.

Thank goodness - I am a Pisces!…

World's largest dating event sees 20,000 Chinese search for love On a sunny day on the outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday, 20,000 hopeful, curious and in some cases desperate Chinese gathered for the world's largest dating event.

Better than beijing!

Beijing pea-soup pollution has deteriorated dramatically in recent months forcing a lead official to concede the country's air standards were not being monitored correctly.

As a pall of yellow-brown smog settled over Beijing yesterday (FRI), the city's air pollution index stood at 84, or grade 2. That officially made it a "blue sky day", according to Beijing's environmental bureau.

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Far from promoting growth and political solidarity, which is what the single currency was supposed to do, the euro is in fact achieving the opposite effect, by condemning the eurozone to long term recession and now extreme political infighting. Again, it cannot be right to persist with something which is achieving the opposite of what it was meant to simply because the alternatives are thought to be worse.

What does anyone here think? This is serious

Why creative writing is better with a pen

Not only is longhand a much more portable way to write, it's also much more individual

...........There are far too many distractions when writing directly onto the screen. The internet being the main culprit. But if that's not all, the computer screen itself is enough to put some writers off completely.

Read the whole article! Power to the pen!…

All you need to do is drink 13 bottles of wine a day!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8862386/Red-wine-holds-key-to-better-health-for-obese-patients.html