Rant of the day

HANDBALL Handball is big in Denmark. Since Scandinavians haven't yet realised that football is a winter game (they stop playing it betwe...

ANDY MURRAY No British male tennis player has won one of the four major championships since Fred Perry took the U.S. Open in 1936. So excite...

DANISH CUISINE Last year the award for the world's best restaurant went to Noma , in Copenhagen. Earlier this week, the World Cuisine Ch...

FLOOD REPORTING There have been floods over much of the southern hemisphere during the past month. In Brazil more than 800 people are known ...

JUSTINE HENIN On the day when defending champion Roger Federer, elegant as ever in white shirt and yellow sweatband, was beaten in the semi-...

BRIDGE (2) Playing in a tournament obviously brings benefits. Last night was the first round of the club championship, where I play regularl...

MOLE WARFARE (5) It has been all quiet on the western front this winter; I haven't caught a mole since 28 November . Which has irritated...