麻豆社

Despatches from news correspondents around the world: Kevin Connolly on how Western policy makers, trying to respond to developments in the Middle East, are grappling with difficulties created by their own predecessors. As American warships prepared to fire missiles at targets in Syria, out in the Pacific Ocean two US carrier battle groups were carrying out the biggest live fire exercise in years. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes wondered if they had a target in mind. Iona Craig talks of a revolution in Yemen and how the whole nation was surprised when a previously marginalised militia group swiftly seized control of the capital, Sana'a. France is a country where the economic news just gets gloomier and gloomier. Hugh Schofield says one area everyone agrees should be confronted is the so-called regulated professions which carve out comfy little niches for themselves. And the mushrooms, aided by a long wet summer, have been bursting out in the woods in Hungary. Nick Thorpe has been out to pick them. But which ones will lift his dinner to gastronomic heights and which ones might kill?