I don´t know if anyone saw the UK TV programme called Tribal Wives recently? It was VERY interesting to learn how this system works - and in a way it makes a little more sense when you live in a tribe where the women are expected to do so much!.

Women with the same husband live in a kind of commune and hope their husbands will have plenty of wives to help with all the work. They shared childcare and all the chores (of course they did absolutely everything, while the men sat around looking at the goats all day!).

What I really loved was the fact that they all had young boyfriends! In fact, if a wife didn´t have have boyfriends and admirers, the husband was disappointed because it meant she was not such a "catch". Some of them never had sex with their husband - it was more like joining a safe (and rich) community than marriage....

A 70-year old giant turtle living on the Galapagos Islands might become father again. He is the oldest and only male of his sort and after 36 years of non-reproductive activities he and two female turtles produced eleven eggs.

This video which is partly in English and partly in Dutch, shows more. (Sorry for the commercial in the beginning.)

Robbie Coltrane Wanted in New Zealand

Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child

WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman´s daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn´t love her.
The National Enquirer first reported on the affair in October 2007, and Edwards denied it.
"The story is false," he told reporters. "It´s completely untrue, ridiculous." He professed his love for his wife, Elizabeth, who had an incurable form of cancer, saying, "I´ve been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and as anybody who´s been around us knows, she´s an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story´s just false."
Last month, the Enquirer carried another story stating that its reporters had accosted Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel where he had met with Hunter after her child´s birth. Edwards called it "tabloid trash," but he generally avoided reporters´ inquiries, as did his former top aides.
In the interview, scheduled to air on ABC News´ "Nightline," Edwards said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.

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... and I thought he was a decent candidate...