IT IS an absorbing story of a celebrated pony breed with origins going back 2,500 years to the days of the Celtic warriors, and intriguing links old and new to a prince of the past and a Knight of the present.

Australia’s richest man, media mogul Kerry Packer, known throughout the world for his love of sports and gambling, has died at 68.

IF BRITAIN did not support the United States in the circumstances, then the Americans would become more unilateralist and, thus, more uncontrollable than ever... that was one of the arguments put forward