I jumped down the small flight of stairs.

The train crawled through an unlovely smokescape of towering chimneys and squatting kilns.

Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

Rich countries must sign a “historic pact” with the poor on the climate, or “we will be doomed”, the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has warned, as a deepening gulf between the developed and developing world has put climate talks on the brink.