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India's growing middle class is being targeted in a campaign to bring more of the country's golfers to Ireland. Arjun Atwal's win in the US last weekend has focused attention on a market that is potentially one of the biggest in the world.

This is not the Pakistan of disastrous floods or Taliban terror. In one episode of her new reality TV show, Komal Rizvi attends a party in Karachi, where illegal alcohol flows freely and the beautiful people chat in English rather than Urdu.

A meteor broke through the Earth's atmosphere on the night of 14 April. It was so bright that it could be seen from Missouri to Minnesota. A massive sonic boom was heard as it crashed into south-west Wisconsin and shook farmhouses in Mifflin.

The 2011 Rugby World Cup will be the biggest sporting event ever held in New Zealand. More than 100,000 fans are expected to travel to the Southern Hemisphere for the games and the parties that start on 10 September and end on 22 October next year.

The disaster that began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest of Pakistan is one of the worst in the country's history. Some 20 million people and 160,000 sq km of land — a fifth of the country — have been affected by the floods.

Sick, orphaned or lost, children are the most vulnerable victims of Pakistan's floods. In the rain, in the mud, with hunger and danger all around, up to 3.5 million youngsters are threatened by everything from gastroenteritis to dehydration.