On an overcast morning in deepest Connecticut, Froch strode into a huge, black, stretched limousine in sunglasses, looking as though he was auditioning for the role played by Tom Cruise in a 2009 remake of 'Top Gun'.

BBC: man on Froch-watch

When Stewart leaves to continue creating his own sounds, Palmer goes south, to the Delta (and towns like Greenville, Clarksdale, and Bentonia), where the deepest blues were born in the shacks and juke joints of black sharecroppers.

NEWYORKER: Deep Blues

And building a pipeline to Turkey from Baku would be child's play compared with the Russian project, which involves laying the deepest undersea pipeline in the world, through the corrosive sludge of the Black Sea bed.

ECONOMIST: Of politics and pipelines