Biden doesn't get entertainment. The proof is in the pudding: Fox Network stations are losing viewers to tractor pulling competitions. Yawn.

The tell-tail sign is that Tsar Vlad is showing his hairy chest, flexing his military muscles and speaking "thems fightin' words".

When Louis-François Cartier founded his eponymous jewellery company in 1847, he could not have imagined that four of his watches, valued at less $5,000 each, would cause such a fuss. But such is the unseemly blend of business, politics and revenge.

With the speed of Geoffrey Boycott at bat and surety of a child choosing which chocolate to take, Jimmy has taken five weeks to decide that women do, after all, deserve a measure of respect greater than the opening of car doors.

Earlier this week, Brad Battin, the hitherto unknown state Liberal MP, embarrassingly fell at the first hurdle of parliamentary coup success: being able to count.

The global venting of bile by a woman seeking celebrity and financial gain captivated the world's media. And Emperor Xi, Myanmar, Iran and steelworkers were relegated to even numbered pages, deep in the bowels of print media.