newsroundup

One of the most interesting stories of the week for me centred on North Korea's state sponsored supernote manufacturing.
In an apparent effert to disrupt the world economy, the state has been developing high quality forgeries of US $100 bills for about 15 years and has been laundering them in a partnership with the IRA, no less!
After years of alcoholism and a somewhat excessive lifestyle, George Best has been laid to rest in Belfast today to a procession infront of hundreds of thousands.
China has been further eroding the system of democracy in Hong Kong, with more negative developments, and a German youth pastor has come up with a thoroughly questionable and creepy way to entice young people back into the church.