As I write this story I see a news alert that Germany will be banning naked shorts at mid-night today, and will not allow CDOs for their most important financial institutions.

FORBES: June Swoon Coming To Stocks

For the very young (or the very shy) there was a quiet corner where visitors could write a piece for News or Sport Online with themselves or their family at the heart of the story.

BBC: Spreading the word

Editor s note: If you are planning to use the news story that this discussion-activity is based on for a homework assignment, please write the URL on the board and have your students copy it.

CNN: Discussion-activity: Yugoslav president's hold on power

It's great for getting the gist of a news story that's published in Japanese or Finnish, but if I need to write a formal letter to someone in one of those languages, I'd get human help.

CNN: Bonjour Google! Gmail adds auto-translation