An exhibition in Paris of color photographs of life under the German occupation has caused such a furore that it was nearly cancelled. The photographs, which were taken by an employee of a Nazi propaganda magazine, are now to be shown with new captions explaining their historical context.

A controversial exhibition about Paris during World War II has caused such an uproar that it was almost cancelled.

The Historical Library of the City of Paris is currently showing 270 photos taken during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. However the library has come in for heavy criticism for not revealing that the photographer worked for a Nazi propaganda magazine and for failing to give any context to the images.

What do Germans earn? How much do they drink? How loyal are they? How often do they lie? What do they believe in? What are they afraid of? How often do they have sex? How do they die? A new SPIEGEL report gives a unique picture of the average German and how they think, live and love.

Last year Thomas Müller ate 42.9 kilograms (94.6 pounds) of fruit, consumed 540 glasses of alcoholic beverages, wore pajamas to bed, watched at least 1,200 hours of TV, drank champagne at birthday parties, received new music CDs for Christmas, drove to work and had sex with his wife 117 times. He is a man without secrets.

In the same year, Sabine Müller ate 57 kilograms (126 pounds) of fruit, consumed 229 glasses of alcoholic beverages, slept in a nightgown, occasionally baked a cake and watched more than 1,400 hours of TV. She has an orchid in her living room and puts up a real Christmas tree for the holidays -- and she had sex with her husband 117 times. She is a woman without secrets.

The Müllers spent two weeks of the year on vacation -- in Germany -- and on Jan. 1, 2008, they discovered that they had gained 370 grams (13 ounces) over the holidays. Thomas is 45, 1.79 meters (5'10") tall, is slightly overweight at 83.5 kilograms (184 lbs), and earns €3,702 ($5,923) a month gross. His wife, Sabine, is three years his junior, 1.66 meters (5'5") tall and weighs a little under 67 kilos (148 pounds). She works part-time, wears her hair long but not too long, runs the household on her own and likes reading horoscopes.

A religious beekeeper in Serbia has started making beehives shaped like tiny monasteries and churches "because bees have a soul too".

Slobodan Jeftic, 58, from Stari Kostolac, said: "By doing this, I am bringing together the two great loves of my life, beekeeping and my religion.

Hoax calls to Dublin Zoo for Rory Lion and G Raffe are jamming its telephone switchboard.

Up to 5,000 unsuspecting victims of a practical joke are flooding the phone lines at the Phoenix park attraction, reports the Irish Independent.

They all received text messages to their mobile phones telling them to urgently call the zoo's number and ask for G Raffe, C Lion, Rory Lyons or Anna Conda.

Zoo bosses say their switchboard operators have been overwhelmed and pleaded with the public not to fall for the prank.

An English village is holding a referendum on defecting to Wales - for benefits such as free prescriptions and free hospital car parking.

Residents of Audlem, Cheshire, nine miles from the Welsh border, have organised an online poll asking villagers whether it is time to break away from England.

The village is unlikely to come under the control of the Welsh Assembly any time soon, reports the Daily Telegraph.

But residents say the poll will tell politicians there is an issue of increasing inequality between countries in Britain that needs addressing.

Residents have so far voted 63% in favour of joining Wales with 37% opposed. To date 154 people have voted.

People in the US are reportedly changing their holiday plans - after petrol reached the "ridiculous" price of up to 50p a litre.

The national average for unleaded fuel is $3.53 a US gallon - which works out at just over 47p a litre.

But the price in California, the most expensive state for 'gas' in the US, has reached 51p a litre with diesel even higher at 59p.

US motorists will get little sympathy from their British counterparts where petrol is well over £1 a litre and diesel around £1.20.

I accidentally sliced the top of my middle finger almost all the way off.  Luckily, they managed to sew it back on at the clinic.

I am still in that "shock" mode, and am looking to distract myself.

It doesn't hurt but I have that vaso-vagal thing that makes me faint when I  see blood, etc, so I am lying down and trying to get over the whole thing

I looked in the BIOS, nothing. I haven't changed any settings anyway, and didn't download any big software. I even took off the hood, to look if there is a visible hardware problem.

Then I found an internet page advising people to re-set a silly default Windows setting that spins down the HDD after 3 minutes of idling to save energy (as if spin-up weren't eating energy).

What I wonder about is: why did this become a problem only now? Has an automatic update made Windows more efficient, using the swap file less? Or the opposite, did they fuck up the way th program recognises idling?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

I hope these pictures frontpage throughout the world tomorrow.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

are there shuttles between girona airport and el prat, and how far are they away from each other?

googling to no avail...

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower