We have always had huge day-to-day and year-to-year variations in our weather, and we always will do, and a couple of cold winters are no more evidence that climate change has stopped than a single summer heat-wave proves that global warming is happening.

BBC: Time to spend more money preparing for colder winters?

They believe the single currency is likely to lead first-wave members, possibly quite soon, to co-ordinate their economic, fiscal and even social policies ever more closely.

ECONOMIST: Euro-apartheid?

The new single currency has also set off a wave of cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

ECONOMIST: Wo ist Goldilocks?

Thanks to an engineer's trick called "wave division multiplexing, " a single fiber-optic thread can carry upwards of 10 trillion bits per second.

FORBES: Digital Rules

If the tide of South-East Asian migrants had broken upon Bradford in a single wave, as did the Kenyan and Ugandan Asians who fled to London and the Midlands in the late 1960s and early 1970s, their story would be simpler, and happier.

ECONOMIST: Segregation

Its disclosure that investigators working for the News of the World had intercepted and erased voicemails intended for murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler was perhaps the single most incendiary detail in the entire scandal and helped trigger the wave of inquiries and resignations that followed.

FORBES: Oops! NY Times Repeats Already-Corrected Hacking Scandal Error