- The old is new again. Emerging markets take a hammering.

- But not if you are flush with oil dosh. The Middle East targets the Premier League for its latest buying spree.

- Floods ravage beautiful Havasupai. We missed this place on our road trip in March but only because we couldn't find the time.

- Goodbye, Thomas Bata. You shod my feet when I was a kid, and the feet of millions more. In fact, when it came to shoes, Bata was the only name in business in Bangladesh back then.

- Goodbye, Don LaFontaine. In a world inhabited by pipsqueaks, your gravelly voice graced a thousand movie trailers!





- Finally, please don't fuck with the grammar, yeah?