When your house is on fire, you may not be in the mood to hear about an impending cancer epidemic that threatens your neighborhood, so I hesitate to bring up this topic.

CNN: What if carbon dioxide were as black as oil?

Barca were not in the mood to be lenient and after Messi curled a 30-yard free-kick narrowly wide and forced Pyatov to catch his cheeky chip, they doubled their advantage.

BBC: Barcelona 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk

The digital world is new, and the real gains and losses of the Internet era are to be found not in altered neurons or empathy tests but in the small changes in mood, life, manners, feelings it creates—in the texture of the age.

NEWYORKER: The Information

Bashing the chaebol is not new in South Korea, but this time the mood appears to be hardening.

ECONOMIST: Presidential politics in South Korea

In the current political mood the promise of an amnesty would be difficult to honour, though not everyone wants to see Mr Suharto humiliated.

ECONOMIST: Touching the Untouchable

It's one of the reasons Nelson was not in a let bygones be bygones mood yesterday when talking about Bilonog and doping.

NPR: Olympian Bestowed 9-Year-Old Gold Medal

He said there was not going to be an "in or out" referendum now, but the "mood has changed".

BBC: Philip Hammond backs Michael Gove over rethink on EU

The recent election strengthened the hand of those who want to extend all the tax rates at current levels, but the lame duck Congress may be a little cranky and not in an accommodating mood.

FORBES: The Real Problem With Obama's Tax-Cut Priorities

This of course can only be done with some help from the EU or IMF, or some other body, and they are not currently in a mood to do that.

BBC: Greece: How do you save an economy from going bust?

The Sunday Herald's Associate Editor, Pat Kane, thinks Scotland's buoyant national mood chimes in well with the paper's intentions, although it will not be backing the secessionist Scottish National Party.

BBC: News | UK | Scotland heralds a new Sunday paper

He does not want to be over-dependent on the mood among deputies: although TIM held 120 of the seats in the outgoing assembly, there is no guarantee that it will maintain such a dominant position in the new house.

ECONOMIST: Madagascar's government calls an early election