The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate's finest hotels
New Year's resolutions are notorious for never being achieved.
It may be a new year, but some things never change. Dramatic mishaps always have newspapers rummaging through the shabby old costume-box of exaggerated language. Here is the opening paragraph of our report in yesterday's paper of the Dubai hotel fire.
The debate centres around the fact that some 2.6 million women had their state pension age delayed – in some cases twice, and by up to six years in total – without proper notice
Marcus Berkmann got fewer cards this Christmas than last. So did everyone he knows. An ancient seasonal custom is slowly shrinking into non-existence...
Take the Etch a Sketch wiper to emotional scribbles you've amassed, says Alison Taylor
An elderly female friend once told Arabella Weir that no woman could ever criticise another woman, because it always, always looked like sour grapes
When Daniel died, his friends were unsurprised to find that he had designed and sculpted his own tombstone ready to be erected in his local cemetery
With British officialdom so reluctant to say anything that might ruffle this gruesome regime's feathers, it is up to the rest of us to make our dismay about the case of these six young men heard