The researchers found that the first day of the Cenozoic was peppered with cataclysms. When the asteroid struck, it temporarily carved a hole 60 miles across and 20 miles deep.

This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area

For all his faults, there had been something lofty and great about him - as a judge, as a patron of education, as a builder, as an international figure.

We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.