LONDON - BRITAIN named its first female - and openly gay - poet laureate on Friday, to follow in the footsteps of renowned bards such as William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
MANILA - AMERICAN TV chef Anthony Bourdain called it 'the holy grail of pork' and Time magazine the 'Best Pig' in Asia.
While it might seem the deadly flu outbreak is capable of reaching every corner of the world, it has singularly failed to put the Philippines off its favourite dish of 'lechon", slowly roasted pig.
