DC, and at first seems reluctant to leave that city: readers may begin to wonder when the American people of the sub-title are going to appear.

ECONOMIST: American history

By dint of being in Greece, you suspect, they make it into the Lib Dem list that I'll sub-title "the list of areas outgunning us economically but somehow sound as though they shouldn't".

BBC: Difficult reading, difficult call

The book is not quite what its sub-title promises an analysis of civil-military relations in the United States during the 1990s but rather a finely crafted and enjoyable account of the shared culture and personal chemistry of America's political and military power-brokers.

ECONOMIST: Washington chronicle

Some measure of how far the scientific debate has shifted can be gauged from the extensive list of sub-clauses in the title of a two-day Royal Society discussion meeting on exoplanets earlier this week.

BBC: From counting to characterising exoplanets

Pathan finished with an 18-wicket haul in the tournament, justifying his billing as the best young pace bowler in the sub-continent, as India clinched the title.

BBC: SPORT | Cricket | India back Pathan's potential