Europe is at its chaotic worst. France and Britain want a no-fly zone, but Germany, deaf to the pleas of Libyans, sees only risks and entanglement.

Russians maintain that they love it, but the neighbours find the smell a bit overpowering.

Known in the surrounding villages as being able to afford no more than watery congee for three meals each day, young men in the village had problem finding girls who willing to marry into the village.