TWI2TRONIK

On the 19th you can indulge in the many faceted delights of olive oil in Giano Vetusto and raise a glass to the capretto (little goat) in Sant'Anastasia from 26 to 29 Nov. Swing by the numerous new wine festivals in Puglia.

So let me make a fool of myself for a minute. What do you think? Are wedoing the right things? Are we in the right place? Are we heading in the rightdirection? Is our purpose right? Is our mission right? And let me be clear, Iam asking these questions as head of education at the BBC, not as a man in themidst of a spiritual crisis!

After driving for another half hour or so, dodging tortoises that can't half move at a lick when they have to, we noticed that the flower-to-scrub ratio was mounting. And by the time we glimpsed the Atlantic, meadows full of beautiful white, yellow, orange and purple blooms were laid out before us in their full floral splendour as eland, gemsbok and kudu delicately p[icked through them. Stunning.

Gunmen belonging to the Jundallah, an al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked terror group, had stopped a bus carrying the victims in the relatively quiet northern region of Pakistan. The gunmen, disguised as military personnel, hauled the Shiites from the bus and shot them dead near the town of Harban, which is inhabited by two Sunni tribes.

Aku mengucap panjang, ayat kursi tak henti-henti kubaca.