Movies

The Go-Between (1970)

Karzai likely to prevail, says US

THE Obama Administration has told Hamid Karzai's Government that it believes he will be re-elected President of Afghanistan for another five-year term even though the results from last month's disputed election are still under review because of evidence of widespread fraud.

Fusion of taste and harmony

The noisy, harried life of the typical kitchen is not for this culinary artist, writes Carli Ratcliff.

TV previews

Finding the Fallen ABC1, 6.10pm The Pinky & Perky Show ABC1, 4.10pm

Letters

No Hottest 100 conspiracy to suppress the sisterhood

Home, Sweet Home

There's Australian countryside for sale just beyond the Great Dividing Range, writes Kate Farrelly.

Quixotic Toledo

Steve McKenna escapes Madrid's hustle and bustle for a historic jewel in the Spanish countryside.

Honey, Disconnect The Phone, I'm Back In Soviet Central Asia

The only thing little changed from Soviet days is the vast countryside, writes Eric Ellis in Astana.

Nothing Civil About This War

High noon. High drama. High summer. The temperature is climbing into the upper 30s, the humidity sticky hot, the air tinged with smoke from a thousand fires as a deafening hush creeps across the drowsy countryside like a dirty, sweaty blanket. Suddenly, all is chaos, all is cacophony. First comes the dull, deafening crump of cannons. Next the snap, snap, snap of musket fire, echoing through near-by woods. Then a blood-curdling wail, a banshee, fighting man's yell.

World's Best Put On A Show

WATCH every stage of the world's most prestigious cycling race as it winds its way through the picturesque French countryside.

Smart Alex Still Grinning

ALEX JAMES Blur's resident hedonist has found a new calling in the English countryside.

Principal Walks The Pilgrimage

DURING term two, 2007, the principal of St Joseph's PS, Merewether, John Wakely, embarked on a pilgrimage through the countryside of Spain by following in the way of the apostle St James.

Lions' Pride On Display In Mauling Affair

The Lions have travelled all over the countryside and into a grand final.

Allez-allez - A Go-go Decides To Turn French

At 48, Belinda Carlisle, the former hard-partying frontwoman of '80s girl group the Go-Go's has turned to Buddhism, lives in the countryside and finds comfort in motherhood, Jane Rocca writes.