The article below was this morning’s morning coffee, which failed to be published due to technical difficulties. Please accept it as an after-work coffee instead.
We begin this morning with a quick glance at serious news.
In Iran, British embassy staff have been arrested, as the authorities continue to blame Britain and the United States for voter anger at rigged election results.
In Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya has been exiled to Costa Rica in a military coup. Venezuela is threatening military intervention.

(Photo by Mike Mawson)
Will art critics be replaced with pigeons? A recent study from Japan has shown that pigeons can be train to discern “good” art from “bad”.
Crop circles in the UK are apparently not made by visiting aliens or teenagers with too much time on their hands. Instead, they are indicative of the existence of 6,000-year-old tombs, which interfere with plant growth on the surface.

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