The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 raked home $340 million worldwide on its debut this weekend, but one man who won't be letting his daughters buy tickets for the sexy vampiric action flick is Mark Driscoll, an American pastor, who has written a blog calling the series a girls' version of "what porn is to teenage boys: sick, twisted, evil, dangerous, deceptive, and popular."
Friday 26 October 2012
'Hyundai is beating the Europeans at their own game'
Thursday 25 October 2012
Road gritting and snow clearance teams are standing by to deal with the first onslaught of wintry weather as forecasters warn that temperatures are likely to plunge over the weekend.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Road gritting and snow clearance teams are standing by to deal with the first onslaught of wintry weather.
Friday 28 September 2012
The Masters champion is fiercely patriotic and prone to getting emotional, but, writes Paul Mahoney, the Floridian will get deadly serious this weekend
Sunday 02 September 2012
Is Skoda's latest family car, the Rapid, up to speed?
Saturday 18 August 2012
With Election Special, Ry Cooder extends the outraged political perspective of last year’s outstanding Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down into election year, with another set of what he called that album’s “simple tools for citizens under siege”.
Sunday 22 July 2012
Say you have a bag with either a white counter or a black counter in it, but you don't know which. Then you drop a white counter into the bag. Shake it up and remove one counter. It's white. What are the odds that the remaining counter is also white? If you enjoy puzzles like this, then Ball's collection of number games and logical conundrums is for you.
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Skoda has released the first official pictures of the Rapid, a new model that slots into its range between the Fabia and the Octavia.
Monday 14 May 2012
Chevrolet has released a picture of its forthcoming new small SUV, the Trax, which is expected to be seen in the metal for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in September.
Friday 11 May 2012
Engine: 1.7-litre four-cylinder diesel,
turbocharged
Power: 130 PS at 4,000rpm
Torque: 300 Nm between 2,000 and 2,500 rpm
Fuel consumption (combined cycle): 62.7mpg
CO2 emissions: 117g/km
Top speed: 124mph
Acceleration (0-62 mph): 9.4 seconds
Price: from £16,725
Friday 09 March 2012
Monday 05 March 2012
The sight of this meteor shooting across the night sky sparked fears that a passenger jet was about to crash – then triggered a treasure hunt.
Friday 24 February 2012
A coroner today opened Australia's fourth inquest into the most notorious and bitterly controversial legal drama in the nation's history: the 1980 death of a nine-week-old baby whose parents say was taken by a dingo from her tent in the Australian Outback.
Thursday 29 December 2011
Price: £24,395
Engine capacity: 1.7 turbo diesel
Top speed (mph): 124
0-62 mph (seconds): 10.6
Fuel economy (mpg): 55.4
CO2 emissions (g/km): 134
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