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• Eamonn McCann: Why isn’t Obama quizzing Bush over bail-out billions?

Sooner or later, the American people will see through Obama’s lack of transparency.

• Lindy McDowell: Why Stone’s ‘art’ wasn’t in the frame

In common with about 100% of the population I did not for a minute think that Michael Stone’s attack on Stormont was a work of performance art.

• Gail Walker: Why we don’t need Charles on Nolan show

Buoyed by an uplift in public support following his 60th birthday celebrations, Prince Charles is up to his old tricks again.

• Ed Curran: Dear Peter and Martin, have you no shame as people go to the wall?

Not long to go now before Stormont is on its holidays again. I refer to the 108 folks on the hill.

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• Robert Fisk: Fear stalks the streets of Kandaha

There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue.

• Frances Burscough: Why I’m sure we’ll all have a funny turn this winter

There’s something funny going on in Belfast. In fact, it’s getting funnier by the week.

• Eric Waugh: Why a Tory election win could be a loss for Northern Ireland

The infighting in the Tory Party over the body of George Osborne may not strike many this side as of great domestic importance.

• Mark Steel: Losers who hate to love Obama

Oh they've all changed now. Suddenly they all like Obama, so even Republican spokesmen are saying things like: "This great and truly memorable moment shows what a wonderful country we are.

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• Steven Beacom: Northern Ireland - frustrating,uninspiring and, frankly, depressing

Well, at least there were no World Cup points at stake.

• James Lawton: Memories of Thomson's valour live on at heart of Scottish game

Around the time Diego Maradona arrived in Glasgow about as amiably as a cornered wolverine – "I do not speak in English" he told a wildly optimistic radio man waving a mike over the heads of a police cordon – Scottish football was gathering in a large banqueting room to honour, with immense feeling and great dignity, the life of a rather different kind of footballer.

• Joe Kernan: Lower the prices GAA, that is just the ticket

To say that we are living in challenging financial times would be something of an understatement.

• David Healy: There’s little respect for referees

The FA’s Respect the Referees campaign has had plenty of publicity lately. And as far as I am concerned it is not working. Not at all.

Odd Box

• Man divorced over Second Life affair
• Japanese man wants to marry cartoon character
• 'Hundreds' of animals and jewellery found in raid
• Hero dog saves kittens from house blaze
• Swedish ice hockey game delayed by sex toys
• Naked man wedged in chimney
• Zoo animals found in suspected drug den
• Girl changes her name to 'Cutout Dissection.com'
• Monkey works as waiter
• Ban for viewing sci-fi film while driving truck
• Man punches shark to save pet dog
• Politician and pilot spot UFO in Meath
• Dog rescues owner by calling police
• Police use Taser on nude man walking his dog
• Burglar attacks with sausage and spices
• Man with 86 wives vows to marry more
• Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move
• Spanish monarch replaced by Homer Simpson
• Pooh blocks drains in Ballymoney
• Britain's smallest burglar: It's a tall man's world
• Couple fined over 'sex games' at war memorial
• Nevada brothel entices visitors with free petrol