Smoker, Barbara 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' This question is often pressed by modern Christian theologians - especially, in my experience, the Catholic Dominicans - although it was a secular mathematician, Leibniz, who first framed it, three centuries ago.

Smoker, Barbara The late Mohammed Emwazi greatly enjoyed his hobby, which was beheading people. Any infidel would do, though the people he really loathed were naturally former Muslims, guilty of apostasy.