-Mugabe concedes defeat in presidential elections and will vacate State House immediately. Mugabe will retire to a tobacco farm in the Kashmir region near Pakistan. Mugabe cites the clean mountain air as the major attraction for the location of retirement home.
-Moving to the US presidential election, President Bush has decided to withdraw his nomination for John McCain, and will instead support Hugo Chavez as an independent candidate. Bush says Chavez is a stronger Conservative than McCain and would have greater influence in the developing world.
-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has met President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a US warship off the coast of pirate-infested Somalia. The two leaders are reportedly discussing a possible military alliance in order to defeat US forces in Iraq, access to oil reserves have been cited as a possible motivation.
-In the financial markets today the price of coffee has reached an all record high with farmers expecting no less than €100 per kilo for their beans. Ethiopian farmers are said to become increasingly wealthy, outstripping their European and mid-western American counterparts.
-And yes, the financial sectors of the world: New York and London have decided to trade in Euros. It was decided by traders that the dollar is indeed one ugly note, and that the Euro leads the trend in currency fashion.
....wouldnt all this be lovely!
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