Meanwhile it is, as my colleague Jonathan Watts puts it, on course to become "both a green superpower and a black superpower" - simultaneously the world's green energy giant and its carbon villain.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

It was as if a giant were pounding the house with his fist.

In an age of globalisation, global powers have to be economic titans.

However, when she heard about the giant she made Jack promise never to go there again.