The ideal Ashbery reader is a foreigner or an extra-terrestrial: there can be no more liberating way of learning English than from these wacky, dandified samplings.

ECONOMIST: Modern poetry can be plaintive or richly idiomatic, or both

The Commission Generale de Terminologie et de Neologisme has decreed that hashtag will be no more, in a further bid to stop English invading the language.

BBC: Quiz of the week's news

And in the entire 124-year history of English soccer, no one else has won more than six.

WSJ: Some Lavish Praise for Alex Ferguson��Manchester United

"We reached an agreement on how 'reset' is spelled in both Russian and English - we have no differences between us any more, " Mr Lavrov said through an interpreter.

BBC: Button gaffe embarrasses Clinton

The antiquated English tracks, which allow a top speed of no more than 100 miles an hour, are due for replacement in 2003.

ECONOMIST: For some, France is still on the other side of the earth

More to the point, does it have no proverb expressing what the English one does?

ECONOMIST: A plain man��s appeal for finds

"Y'know, we love all people here, French, German, Japan, English and Americans, even the Israelis, but they don't come no more, " says the cafe owner.

BBC: Jordan suffers tourist drought