"With her cardboard cards and her oatmeal boxes, Inge registered the velocity of propagation of the earthquakes to all parts of the globe.
The prime minister will not get a substantive renegotiation of the UK's terms of membership before 2017, so the referendum question will not be about his supposed diplomatic triumph but rather: "Do you want to stay in the present EU, with all its deficiencies and problems?" The referendum will cause grave financial and economic instability and make the UK a laughing stock across the globe.
To further engage people, there's the blog posts from founder Henrietta Lovell, who travels the globe and updates the site with her tea plantation visits.
And if you take the fighting in Mali and the attack on the refinery, and add it to a list of all the incidents occurring around the globe involving extremist Islamist violence, it is undoubtedly a frightening picture.
The bankers and the hedge fund owners did well out of QE, but the side-effect of footloose money searching the globe for high yields was higher food and fuel prices.
Those cities around the globe hoping a brand-name museum will save them should be watching carefully.
With polls suggesting that a guiding premise of Obama's foreign policy – "Don't do stupid shit" – fell out of favour with the American public almost two years ago, the questions 19 months from Election Day start at Foggy Bottom and spread across the globe: how far might candidate Clinton go to distance herself from secretary Clinton?
Now, across the highway, stands Facebook's latest superlative: the mother of all office park sheds, said to contain "the largest open floor plan in the world", designed by globe-trotting titanium-crumpling starchitect, Frank Gehry.
Pre-season friendlies have always been among the more whimsical dates in the football follower's diary, or at least they always used to be until the leading clubs began jetting off to all economically viable points of the globe in search of extra income and latent support.
My social media feeds sizzle with the anger of people from across the globe: over the racism of cops in Ferguson, US, over the destruction of antiquities by Isis, over Jihadi John, over Netanyahu's 26 standing ovations and, above all, over the alleged criminal behaviour of bankers.
