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You can learn a lot about a country just by taking a look at it's online newspapers. In the Seychelles, the paper is a short news feed. Today's headlines showed that the government is trying to be more active in attracting foreign investment from Indonesia and there are great rates to/from Kenya right now.

The Botswana Gazette is updated weekly and has articles about waste company sabotage, condoms, diamonds will cost more, and a suspected child murder was found hanged.

I couldn't easily find an English Icelandic newspaper so I settled for the news feed instead. It turns out that Iceland's interest rates have hit a new record in the inflation battle, Icelandair is stopping service to the British West Indies, and a bunch of stuff about soccer.

In Rio de Janeiro, there is mention of today's top headlines of the crazy lady who cause the United Airlines flight to stop in Boston, Lebanon news, and JonBenet Ramsey murder arrest. I did learn that the former general of Paraguay died today at the age of 93. Two Brazilian journalists were kidnapped, and there's a bunch of stuff about soccer.

Not so much happening at McMurdo Station, Antartica. A press release noted that the snowfall hasn't changed in 50 years. No mention of soccer.

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