Sri Lanka's government wants to see its journalists behave like team players, and that's leading to -- shall we say? -- tensions. However, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are worse. They've been known to ...   more »

If the allegation is true, this is possibly the creepiest real-life story involving a journalist that I've ever read.

Tourists and neo-druids alike flocked to Stonehenge at daybreak to mark the summer solstice.

And that provides an excellent excuse to post YouTube clips from what film? You guessed it! Enjoy!

More Stonehenge stuff to follow.

While grabbing a westbound Queen West streetcar, I saw a car heading north on Spadina. Its driver honked his horn furiously, and the passenger exultantly held a Russian flag out the window.

Curious behaviour, if -- as I had anticipated -- Russia lost to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008.

But it did not.

In a tournament of upsets and nail-biters, Russia toppled the big orange scoring machine by a 3-1 score! They scored twice in extra time.

Here's the BBC match report.

One quarter-final left: Spain versus Italy tomorrow. Russia will play the winner of that game on Thursday.

At the risk of dooming them, go Azzuri!