IR Making sense of the complexity of factors that have contributed to the crisis in Africa is a daunting task and you make a bold attempt to do so.

ECONOMIST: Letters

To be fair, Edlund and Korn were merely building an admittedly grossly simplified model of human behavior in an attempt to answer a nagging question: Why do hookers make so much money?

FORBES: The Economics Of Prostitution

We know how it works, when it works, what to do to make it work, and we know that not every attempt to blog will work.

FORBES: Self-Publishing's Place On The Hype Cycle

Congress lacks the numbers to make a takeover bid immediately, and has no desire to attempt a rival combine dependent on Miss Jayalalitha, who would surely do to Congress's leader, Sonia Gandhi, what she is currently doing to Mr Vajpayee.

ECONOMIST: India

But despite their dominance, the Ospreys failed to capitalise - Hook missed a 35th-minute penalty attempt, while Leicester just about cleared a Williams chip into the try area - and they had to make do with a slender one-point lead at the interval.

BBC: Ospreys 23-6 Leicester