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It is time for the European Central Bank to become part of the solution and not part of the problem, the IMF believes.

Nobody says it is completely unproblematic. But the furious growth of the United States population, due to immigration from the south, creates a creative chaos that promises well for the future of the superpower.

In Chechnya, as many as 90.000 people may have been slaughtered by Russian forces in the last year and a half. One of them was an 18-year-old Chechen woman.

Microsoft employees have gone bankrupt personally because they have traded stock options.

On April 10, the Netherlands legalized active euthanasia. Children down to the age of 12 can be killed from the fall, or be helped to commit suicide.

The Russian state has taken control of the country's only independent television station. It could do that because the owner had run the TV company in the DZ.

The EU had been looking forward to taking over the economic baton from the US. But now forecasts in Europe are being downgraded as the United States wavers between renewed hope and black-pessimism.

Every year, one hundred thousand sheep die from starvation, damage and frost in the Norwegian mountain world. But no one is lining them up in huge piles for the media to take pictures of them.

Countries that vaccinate their animals against foot-and-mouth disease are "unclean." Since they are vaccinated, they must also have the disease, is the logic. This means that they cannot export to "pure" markets. In 1990, the EU decided that they would belong to the "pure" countries. The way they did it was to ban all vaccination of animals. And the result? The export of meat went straight to heaven, and so did the profits.