As
the car industry gears up for the usual blizzard of new model announcements to
be made at the Paris Motor Show in late September, a small but growing number
of manufacturers are using another forum to show off their latest wares – this
week's Moscow International Auto Show. At Moscow, there's more chance of being
noticed in a less crowded launch timetable, and also, of course, the chance to
appeal directly to Russia's growing and increasingly wealthy army of car
buyers.
Queen Elizabeth I's government was so determined to convict the English Jesuit priest Edmund Campion of treason that it doctored one of the key documents used to prosecute and send him to his execution, according to new research.
Who's a naughty boy, then? The Queen's corgis stand accused of attacking Max, a Norfolk terrier belonging to her granddaughter Princess Beatrice, almost tearing the 11-year-old pooch's ear off.