Riding out air travel’s new no-nos 
Is this a war on terrorism? Or a war on toothpaste? Authorities foiled an evil plot on the other side of the Atlantic - and suddenly, over the middle of the Pacific, I’m sitting next to a guy with pungent halitosis on a seven-hour red-eye flight from Maui last week.

Cricket: Strauss rejects Aussie scheme on Ashes umpires 
Twenty20: Ahead of England’s clash with Pakistan Andrew Strauss has condemned a suggestion that the Ashes should be umpired exclusively by Australians.

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