Talk that Japan's prime minister may call a snap election for parliament's lower house at the same time as the upper-house poll in July will not die away.

ECONOMIST: Japanese politics

The immediate calls for his head from the Tories will now die away and he has certainly won himself a breathing space - but it is only that.

BBC: Byers wins a breathing space

The Giving Pledge, which asks billionaires and near-billionaires to give away a majority of their wealth before they die.

FORBES: Billionaires and their feelings

The Super Bowl is less than 10 days away, and the streets of New Orleans will soon be full of die-hard fans rooting for the San Francisco 49ers or Baltimore Ravens.

FORBES: Ravens vs. 49ers Super Bowl Ticket Prices Projected To Be Lowest In Three Years

So barbaric was their treatment that it was said you could smell a slave ship from ten-miles away, and it was estimated that of every 1000 slaves transported a minimum of 168 would die en route, usually a lot more.

CNN: Timely regrets: Britain's guilt for its slave trade history