Some trumpeted it as a triumph of international pressure.

CNN: POWER PLAY

As well as helping secure Wales' Grand Slam triumph, Williams won international rugby's greatest personal accolade to become the International Rugby Board's world player of the year.

BBC: Williams awarded BBC Wales crown

Ticket sales for this summer's international programme are expected to take off following England's Test triumph in Sri Lanka.

BBC: ECB expects bumper crowds

International firms including Bosch Engineering, Lockheed Martin, Ashok Leyland, Norgren and Triumph Motorcycles are to be based at the control centre on the site, a spokesman said.

BBC: Nuneaton engineering firm MIRA opens ?50m site

It may be that broad trends, such as the triumph of notions of progress, the decline of the Ottoman empire, the advance of mechanisation and the emergence of international capital markets, made the construction of the canal inevitable.

ECONOMIST: The Suez Canal