Banks have mostly edged higher, despite Thursday's surprise rights issue from Spain's Banco Popular.
Which brings us to our second happy task of this editorial: our pride and pleasure in presenting a (Surprise!) Special Issue in honor of Eugenie Scott, Founding Director of the National Center for Science Education (and a founding member of our own editorial board!).
The Russian authorities had envisioned a gradual phasing out, but the Turkmen leader took them by surprise by issuing a decree that gave dual-citizenship-holders living in Turkmenistan only until June 22nd to decide which passport they wanted to keep.
After an Lithuanian interior ministry "specialist" published an article proclaiming the Holocaust to be a "legend" (he, at least, has since resigned), seven European ambassadors, from Britain, Estonia (this one a truly delightful surprise!), Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden issued a bold letter of protest.
In a surprise decree issued this past weekend, Turkey's government announced the firing of more than 1000 academics at public universities.
Bus company Arriva said it was "surprised" the issue was being discussed ahead of the cabinet meeting.
It therefore came as no surprise that issues of child protection strategy dominated the second day of the UNICEF Executive Board's first regular session of 2008, which is being held at UN headquarters this week.
When running my standard complement of apps, games and utilities, I encountered no performance surprises or issues with the YotaPhone 2. The device matched my battery usage on an average device when used in the normal way, i.e. without really employing the E-ink screen for much.
I am surprised these issues didn't surface during Belief week, but therein is the excellence of how James Mellon has structured "Mental Muscle" Boot Camp.
Is it any surprise that the issue has proved to be so intractable?
