Politics

History should be fun. Children should learn about it by playing computer games. Scottish academic Niall Ferguson has a vision of "doing for history what Jamie Oliver has done for school food: make it healthy, and so they actually want to eat it".

Manny Pacquiao made at least $12 million in his latest win over Joshua Clottey in Las Vegas in March. Before that, he earned $30 million for beating Oscar De La Hoya in 2008. Now, the 31-year-old boxer has his eyes on a political career.

The Liberal Party emerged in the middle of the 19th century. William Gladstone formed a government that established the Liberals as a parliamentary power in 1868. Now Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats hope to bring back Gladstone's glory days.

Spain is home to many Britons who keep close ties with home. A look at the numbers of British residents abroad shows that Spain is fourth after Canada, Australia and the US. Conservatives Abroad have more branches in Spain than anywhere else.

Afghanistan, with 29 million people, has 12 million mobile-phone users. Afghans have formed text-message groups for everything from road conditions to food prices, while doctors in Bamian Province send X-rays and reports to Kabul using their phones.

"I don't speak English — point," said Gérard Araud. He was speaking to the mostly English-speaking press corps at the United Nations. The French ambassador was making the point that French was once the most important diplomatic language.

Russia said last Tuesday that it was going to sell an anti-aircraft missile system to Iran. On Friday, Israel's air force responded by unveiling a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can stay in the air for a day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf.

Britain's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills says that it will spend its money "on helping young people wanting to go to university for the first time". But this is bad news for UK graduates who want to become bureaucrats in Brussels.

Glamour! Scott Brown is married to a Boston television celebrity, Gail Huff, while Ayla, one of his two daughters, was a semi-finalist on American Idol in 2007. Politics! Senator Brown is now getting ready to drive his truck from Massachusetts to Washington, DC.