For once. Also, for once, good news for a newspaper. Colin Freeman, the Sunday Telegraph’s chief foreign correspondent has been freed 40 days after he and his photographer, Jose Cendon, were kidnapped by Somali pirates. BBC report here; brief piece by Colin here.
*Granted, if you’re actually Somali the news is, generally speaking, probably as lousy as ever.

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