1. Even at second hand, a little more of Mironov‘s "shock therapy" would be a good thing.

2. At the launch of the new showroom, Michael Brightmore, general manager of Al Futtaim Automall, said÷ "Ladies often feel overlooked at second–hand car showrooms and feel embarrassed to ask questions.

3. "The Israelis don‘t want anything to do with Hamas at all, even at second–hand." Abu Zuhri also said Hamas believed it was allaying Egyptian concerns that an open Gaza border controlled by Hamas would be a boon for the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamist opposition in Egypt. ‘No interference‘ "We do not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, regardless of what we believe," he said.

4. Egyptian and Hamas officials held talks last week and Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official and spokesman for Hamas, told Reuters in an interview: «There is an understanding with the Egyptians to supply Gaza with its needs and we are talking about arrangements and a mechanism to make that happen.» However, the Egyptian source said Cairo was for now likely to stand by a US–brokered agreement it made when Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005 that gives Israel an effective veto over movement across the Gaza–Egypt frontier. «That’s where we stand at the moment,» the source told Reuters, making clear Cairo was not prepared to harm relations with Israel, the United States, European Union and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. «The Israelis don’t want anything to do with Hamas at all, even at second–hand.» Egypt’s leaders view Hamas with mistrust as allies of their banned Islamist opposition.