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Hovering at the top end of Rolling Stone and Spin's albums of 2010 lists was a name unfamiliar to most British readers: Jamey Johnson. As a socially liberal country artist singing about drugs, prostitutes and violence, he is an anomaly: a country star who's been adopted by alt-country and mainstream rock fans, hitting the Billboard

Sobriety was a lonely place when Jill Stark wrote High Sobriety 10 years ago. Teetotal again, life is much easier in the sober curious age Its a dizzying experience to go from inveterate binge drinker to poster girl for sobriety. In my defence, I never asked to be the spokesperson for a modern-day temperance movement.

Source: Reuters Mon 24 Oct 2011 09.24EDT First published on Mon 24 Oct 2011 09.24EDT

In 1872, the Philadelphia carpenter, orchestra leader and circus performer John Ernst Worrell Keely announced the discovery of a powerful new force. He described "sympathetic vibratory physics", rather vaguely, as resulting from intermolecular vibrations of the aether. If he could only build a machine to harness the force - by vibrating molecules at an atomic

The pair confirmed the news in a US magazine after weeks of speculation fuelled by Mewis wearing a large diamond ring The Australian football star Sam Kerr is engaged to her partner and fellow professional player, Kristie Mewis.