Weekend Roundup: leading exports - odour, fire engines

Cherry blossoms in the Meadows.

• Why does Norway smell? Oh, it's our fault...


• Only four months late, three lucky Serbian kids get their ideal Christmas present!


• Edinburgh University students still protesting Robert Mugabe's honorary degree; despot still sleeping untroubled.


• Staying with EUSA, the poor students of Edinburgh are going to have do with one less bar, at least for six days of the week.

Edinburgh University: failing to trouble despotic slumber

Seemingly Edinburgh University's decision to review the honourary degree it awarded to Zimbabwean presidespot Robert Mugabe hasn't triggered a rethink from Harare.

Mr Mugabe, 83, will not "lose sleep" over the threats, said George Charamba, his spokesman.
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"It is not like the president suffers a crisis of achievement. He has seven solid degrees, which are more than enough to earn him a living and recognition."

I'm not so sure. I mean, I'd certainly start reconsidering all that land 'reclamation' and electoral fraud if it meant losing the letters after my name. Particularly the ones that spell "tyrant".