Last minute : Paired news reveal secret of Angela Merkel’s political success!

North Korea launched three missiles today.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578490383689103360.html

The sort of cold response it got, here when I told my readers why this time China was not in a playing mood but of course in general from experts, with its nuclear war at the US threats and all was not appreciated in Pyongyang.

Like a child after an unsuccessful tantrum, the regime wants attention.

And yet, it does get some in the exact way that I had predicted, check :

http://www.enca.com/world/us-hails-chinese-bank-closing-nkorean-account

( The link to South African ENCA is to discover in itself! )

Meanwhile at the Cannes cinema festival, A shooting ( starter pistol with blanks, not assault rifle ) interrupted a TV show

http://www.france24.com/en/20130517-arrest-man-gun-shooting-cannes-film-tv-studio-canal

to follow the huge Jewelry theft of the opening :

http://www.france24.com/en/20130517-jewels-france-stolen-cannes-hotel-film-festival-theft

Entertainment seems as bad as Sports so let us turn to Culture instead.

In museums, we also find a pair of news as the National Museum of Pakistan unveils new marvels from digs around Quetta for the first time :

http://beta.dawn.com/news/1012006/first-ever-public-display-of-original-artefacts-at-museum

The collection includes a 300 years old Holy Quran and runs all the way back to Gandhara and Indus civilisations artefacts. It is not a coincidence since today is the International Museum Day
http://icom.museum/activities/international-museum-day/
and that brings our second information about. It will be Museum Night in Europe.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130514-a-night-at-paris-museums

The trend was born in Germany but caught on in Paris as told by the BBC above. It is spreading though. I admit to being a huge fan of those day-events where a part of culture is made more or differently accessible to the greater public. A few hours away from Internet as family with the kids to discover the real world through its past?

I talked about Pope Francis yesterday and I’ll have to come back to the Vatican. No religion though, simply politics?

I discovered the secret of Angela Merkel’s long sand successful career as a top politician! Often depicted as tough and unyielding, Ma,am Merkel is actually incredibly adaptable, a well-known tactics of some species, humans and bacteria for instance! There are still talks of her past in “communist” Eastern Germany even while she now embodies staunch Right-wing governance.

By comparing her to the guy in Rome, it shows in much clearer fashion though :

When the Pope looked like this :

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