  Analyses of various cosmological probes, including the latest Cosmic
Microwave Background anisotropies, the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and
Cepheid-calibrated distance indicators suggest that the age of expansion is $13
\pm 3$ Gyr. We discuss some statistical aspects of this estimation, and we also
present results for joint analysis of the latest CMB and Cepheid data by
utilizing `Hyper-Parameters'. The deduced age of expansion might be
uncomfortably close to the age of the oldest Globular Clusters, in particular
if they formed relatively recently.
