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Eurozone agrees on Greek bailout

Eurozone member states have formalised an agreement to grant Greece a€10.3 billion bailout. This is part of a larger, €86 billion bailout programme negotiated in July 2015. With luck Greece won’t spend it all on sweets and arcade games this time. Read more

EU to free online shopping, shackle Netflix

The European Union has designed a set of proposals to be unveiled today that will free barriers to online shopping. Simultaneously, and somewhat ironically, it will launch an additional set of regulations that take a feather straight from South Africa’s national radio playbook, which will enforce a 20% local content quota on Netflix EU. The EU giveth and the EU taketh away. On Wednesday, anyway. Read more

Charleston shooter faces two death penalties

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced on their intention to pursue the death penalty for the Charleston shooter. Dylann Roof, 22, killed nine churchgoers in June 2015. The state has already announced its own separate pursuit of the death penalty. Read more

Depp at war with Australian minister

Johnny Depp has called the Australian deputy prime minister and agriculture minister some rather nasty names. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night, and clearly still seething about his and wife Amber Heard’s doggy deportation fracas, Depp noted that Barnaby Joyce may be “inbred with a tomato”. A fight has been scheduled behind the bike shed after school. Read more

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Facts of the Day

Today is the Douglas Adams-inspired ‘Towel Day’. Carry your towel openly and don’t panic.

Fact of the day: ‘Meme’ was first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. He defined it as “one unit of cultural transmission”. 

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