Alfred BestallScotland on Sunday Online - AT THE height of his fame in the 1970s, a bear dressed in red and yellow was set to become a superstar. His comic annual was selling half a million copies a year and he was the subject of a whole range of merchandising material. Even Paul McCartney
New Zealand Energy in Brief releasedScoop - A new publication released today by the Ministry of Economic Development aims to present a range of energy-related information in an accessible and easy-to-use format. New Zealand Energy in Brief is a concise compilation of key energy data. It
Extra! Extra! Drink all about it!Age - WOMEN wanting to quench their thirst for celebrity gossip now only have to go as far as the fridge. Melbourne businesswoman Joanna Wojtalik has tweaked the message-in-a-bottle concept by sticking a women's gossip magazine on the outside of bottled
It's a sign of the chimesVictoria Times Colonist - Inside the cramped quarters of Victoria City's Hall's clock tower, it's hard to turn without knocking your head against a piece of machinery. Here, where weights, cables and gears grind out every minute of the day on four clock faces, city heritage
New Releases: Hawthorne Heights, We Are Scientists, Morningwood MTV - Hawthorne Heights are showing their true colors with their debut DVD, "This Is Who We Are." The disc offers sneaks of three new tunes ("Light Sleeper," "Where Do I Stab Myself in the Ears" and "This Is Who We Are") and is rounded out by radio-show
NEWSMAKER - Prudence Kidd-Deans 'shoots' from the hip Jamaica Gleaner - SENATOR PRUDENCE Kidd-Deans chuckled as she read a headline, 'Pruddie a.k.a. Billy The Kid comes out gunning' in last Friday's Financial Gleaner . The column by Raymond Forrest commented on her recent call for the removal of red tape to allow average
It glitters. It sparkles. It's art Globe and Mail - VANCOUVER In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus, the primordial titan, and Pandora, a poisoned gift from the gods. When Zeus put an end to the Golden Age by unleashing a great flood, Pyrrha and her husband, Deucalion, braved
Latest Cycling News for March 2, 2006Cycling News - The president of the International Cycling Union, Pat McQuaid, has confirmed the UCI's chief medical officer, Dr Mario Zorzoli, as the source of the 15 documents that provided evidence for French sports newspaper L'Equipe to allege Lance Armstrong
Tame Playboy sparks excitement in Muslim IndonesiaSwiss Info - JAKARTA (Reuters) - Playboy magazine may no longer rate as on the sexual cutting edge in some places, but the first edition in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, was causing a stir on Friday. Although the pictures inside showed less
Ivy WallaceDaily Telegraph - Ivy Wallace, who died on March 13 aged 90, became a publishing phenomenon in the 1950s and 1960s with a series of children's books chronicling the adventures of Pookie, the flying rabbit who leaves his home in the Bluebell Wood to seek his fortune