RISING global food prices have hit school tuckshops, and vendors and students are feeling the pinch.

AT ANFIELD - EXPLAINING the inexplicable is no easy feat and Rafael Benitez did not attempt it.

WASHINGTON - THE US government wants commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners leaving the country, under a security plan the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome.

LONDON - COMPANIES sponsoring the Beijing Olympics now find themselves the targets of a new war on China's human rights record, its handling of the recent unrest in Tibet and a host of other issues.

BALANCING artistic integrity and commercialisation in theatre may sound like a tall order, but the artistic directors of three established theatre companies here say they have found their own ways to do this.

ONE unknowable consequence of the Mas Selamat Kastari escape is whether he and co-conspirators will add insult to injury by staging a ruinous attack on Singapore some day. If this happened, the gravity of the Whitley camp snafu - the missteps and omissions which verged on the amateurish - will be so magnified Singaporeans will be unforgiving of an incident that in the Government's words 'should never have happened'.