"Does anyone know what the red horizontal lights at the top of the Westpac tower in the middle of Sydney signify?" asks Richard Evans, of Belrose. "There are eight lines, facing south, that illuminate in an apparently random fashion, but maybe it's more sinister than that." Sorry, Richard, they are..read more

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Second shot at elBulli

THE lone surviving assailant from last year's Mumbai terrorist attacks, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, has shocked India by pleading guilty in a dramatic courtroom confession.