"First Solar is very pleased to be expanding our commercial presence in China by establishing this relationship with CPINE, one of the premier clean energy state-owned companies in China and a leader in clean energy development," said Kallenbach. "Both China and the U.S. are important markets with vast potential for sustainable solar energy, and this agreement can serve as a model for U.S.-China collaboration on renewable energy. Our agreement with CPINE also includes the potential to expand to other international markets, which could open up tremendous opportunities."

"Our music has always been a mixture: as much influenced by disco bands like Chic as by AC/DC. Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock. So we were always trying to fight this, to make music outside the establishment. For this generation, I think it is natural to like everything. But it was never like that for us."

07.13 Burberry shares are likely to react badly to news that the luxury goods company's chief executive, Angela Ahrendts, has been poached by Apple to become senior vice president of retail and online stores. Ahrendts became the highest-paid boss in the FTSE 100 this year and is credited with revitalising the fashion brand, tripling its value since she became boss in 2006.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will be keen to avoid a repeat of 2007 to 2008 when the jobless rate fell steadily to a trough of 4 percent, sending annual underlying inflation racing to a peak of 4.7 percent, far above its 2 to 3 percent target.

"So what?", you might say, "the German economy works and is still the model for the eurozone". But does the German economy work, especially in terms of increasing production (wealth) instead of merely pushing down wages or balancing budgets?