The Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2010
“Kate’s very special”. In the midst of austerity budgets and fiscal crises, with an Irish neighbour in economic death throes, quality UK broadsheet The Daily Telegraph leads with the news that Prince William, second in line to the throne after his father Prince Charles, has proposed to long time girlfriend Kate Middleton. The Prince offered Miss Middleton the sapphire and diamond engagement ring that belonged to his late mother, killed in a Paris car crash in 1997. This was in order “to bring together the two most “special” women in his life,” the quality daily reveals. The gleaming couple will be married next spring or summer in a ceremony sure to attract “the biggest worldwide TV audiences”, the quality daily notes.
The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies. 
Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either? 
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country that is far from being a model democracy. An Estonian journalist takes a critical look at the deferential treatment enjoyed by the regime in Baku.