Maybe we could send some of our 'developers' to Iraq?

The property market may be crashing here, but one part of the world seeing a boom in house buying is sunny Iraq. Due to a dramatic improvement in security across the country in the past year-and-a-half both sales and prices of houses have shot up as many middle class Iraqis who left the country during the peak of the war are returning. In some upscale areas, house prices have more than doubled in the last year. And it's not just real estate agents enjoying the boom, three million houses need to be built in Iraq to accommodate its citizens, and foreign companies are queuing up to build them.

X-rated x-ray means Wisconsin nurses are now x-nurses

Two Wisconsin nurses were fired this week for
taking photos of a patient's x-rays. The patient in question had a sex toy lodged in his rectum, so one nurse decided to get a quick shot of it on her phone and upload it to her Facebook page.

To smoke or not to smoke, that
is the question

The American Medical Association is to lodge an official complaint with Warner Brothers over dodgy product place­ment in the new film He's Just Not That Into You. Although nothing is ever smoked, the AMA says through­out the film there are "disturbing images of specific cigarette brands".

None more black

There were plenty of ridiculous purchases at the Yves St Laurent auction last week. Most absurd was a lump of black quartz worth €500 bought for €46,600.