Although the title suggests a weekly feature I doubt that I would find something every week. To be honest I just could not come up with a better title … so here we go with some remarkable statements:
I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared.
Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang him?” — he asked. “Why not?” Mr Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.”
Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: “Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?”
Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah — you have scored a point there.”
Foreign visitors arriving via Eurostar at London’s St Pancras station on Thursday might have wondered just how badly Britain has been hit by the credit crunch: more than 100 people turned up at St Pancras wearing only their underpants.
Jochen Bittner’s blog “planet in progress”:
Neenee! Lassen Sie mal. Sie wurden gelobbyt!
Meiden Sie zuviel Champagner, er ruiniert Ihre Magenschleimhaut.