As the US Congress seems to have agreed on a 2000-page-long new bill to overhaul the regulation of the financial market, the G-20 summit in Toronto didn't bring any substantial agreements, but you can read the final summit declaration here. Protests against the summit remained peaceful until yesterday, when several arrests were made after police cars were set on fire.
General Stanley McChrystal, who became combat commander of the US troops in Afghanistan in June 2009, was replaced by General David Petraeus after McChrystal openly critisized members of the Obama administration in a Rolling Stone article.
I wonder whether the FIFA will introduce some kind of mechanism to reverse game-deciding calls by referees that later turn out to be very, very wrong.
DerStandard, on the other hand, covers the winners of this year's "Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur" as if they'd just played and won a football tournament, which is fitting (especially since the nationality of the authors is usually pointed out more often than what topics they write about, or who their influences are).
German actor Frank Giering, probably most widely known for his portrayal of Andreas Baader in Christopher Roth's "Baader" and Peter in Michael Haneke's original "Funny Games", died this week.
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