1. MK Shmuel Halpert, the most veteran Haredi parliamentarian, was s–h–o–c–k–e–d old style.

2. The findings are expected to be submitted to Major General Yoav Galant, O/C Southern Command, within the next few days.

3. Research by card provider Visa and the Future Foundation, a consultancy and thinktank specialising in consumer behaviour, suggests that how good you are at shopping can be determined by the formula sIQ=7(t+s+o+c+p), where the letters relate to a series of statements about spending.

4. And they are wrong." Finnerty thanked his family, friends and fellow students for their support. (Watch how players ‘have a bond that will last forever‘ ) Evans‘ attorney, Joe Cheshire, admonished the media not to judge suspects before the legal system does: "Roy Cooper said a word today; the word is I–N–N–O–C–E–N–T.

5. "I would hope and expect they will reverse" the waiver, he told us, adding that "nobody would have represented the Soviet Union during the days of Ronald Reagan ." The Los Angeles Times reported in the spring that the head of Sudanese intelligence was secretly flown here in April for meetings with U.S. officials about terrorism. (Sudan, an official state sponsor of terrorism, according to the State Department, knows a lot about these things.) So the Sudanese should surely have an adequate "perspective on U.S. concerns and policy." What part of G–E–N–O–C–I–D–E don‘t they get?Floridians Know the Drill – or Do They?