More from the media

My time this morning has been spent reading, not writing. Here's what I've been reading about:

• Violent protests in Hong Kong
  
• Thunderstorms cause havoc in Brisbane, Australia
  
• Bus load of Chinese tourists injured in crash in Victoria, Australia
  
• Italian article on how to be chic in five lessons
  
• Mexican government has better understanding of the causes of illegal border crossings than does the U.S. House of Representatives
  
• Chilean reports on the extent to which alerce (a Chilean redwood tree) forests can be harvested contributes to confusion
  
• Someone stole a huge Henry Moore sculpture
  
• India and the Suez Canal authority have signed an agreement to construct a shipping canal off the southern coast of India
  
• One of the leaders of an oil industry shutdown in 2002-2003 (designed to topple the government of Hugo Chavez) in Venezuela was sentenced to 16 years in prison
  
• An air taxi service, which will charge about 50 cents per kilometer, will be launched in Russia in 2006 to link cities that are not served by regular air service