Winners & Losers

Winners Knut: Ball of fuzz defiant after receiving death threat, rolls around in adorable fashion. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Lebanese plastic surgeons: Lebanese bank offers “plastic surgery loans” in famously image-conscious nation, where demand for cosmetic enhancement has increased 20 percent since last year. British travelers: A pound’ll buy you two bucks. Chan Chun Chuen: Property ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Winners

Winners

Knut: Ball of fuzz defiant after receiving death threat, rolls around in adorable fashion.

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Lebanese plastic surgeons: Lebanese bank offers “plastic surgery loans” in famously image-conscious nation, where demand for cosmetic enhancement has increased 20 percent since last year.

British travelers: A pound’ll buy you two bucks.

Chan Chun Chuen: Property investor and feng shui advisor inherits $4.2 billion from Hong Kong’s richest woman.

Daquiri drinkers: Fruity drinks are good for you.

Losers

The Böög: Swiss cotton snowman goes up in flames, gets slammed by weather experts.

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Bollywood fans: “Wedding of the century” between megastars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan crashed by love-struck, wrist-slashing starlet.

Debbie Schlussel: B-list pundit guesses wrongly that the Virginia Tech shooter was from Pakistan. It goes downhill from there.

Yahoo! Sued by a Chinese political prisoner for allegedly ratting him out to the Chinese government.

Crackberry addicts: Nearly two days of Blackberry outages give North American users the DTs.

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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