If you haven't already read Owen West's Dispatches from Fallujah, now is the time. It's a great five-part no-nonsense story about the gritty details of the war in Iraq from a former marine.
Weavers in Varanasi in India contributes to the holy city going through 600,000 condoms a day by using the condoms' lubrication in the production of saris.
The BBC has a list of other uses for condoms:
Villagers use them to carry water when working in fields
For waterproofing ceilings: condoms are spread under the cement-concrete mortar
Can be mixed with tar and concrete to give a smooth finish to roads
Can be placed over the ends of guns to protect them in desert sandstorms
Drugs 'mules' swallow condoms filled with drugs to smuggle them across borders
I vaguely seem to remember they are also used for something else.
Husband-and-wife team Monique and Chris Fallows have taken some amazing
photographs of sharks, mostly great white, hurling into the air as they
hunt seals near Cape Town in South Africa. Don't miss these astonishing
pictures!
From a Kuwaiti newspaper, via Aljazeera,
comes a too-good-to-be-true story that US forces and Iraqi police have
captured Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian associate of Bin Laden who is
believed to be the leader of the Islamist terrorists in Iraq.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmit is now denying the rumour, and he would probably be one of the first to know.
