If you're reading this after midnight on Friday, March 1, the dreaded Beltway hour of doom known as the "sequester" has arrived and the news is that the world has not ended.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Obamageddon

Journalists will have to hand in their mobile phones to Vatican security staff to prevent them tweeting or communicating with the outside world until the morning session has ended and they have briefed the numerous members of the Vatican Press Corps waiting for information at the Press Centre.

BBC: Vatican embarrassment as Pope's butler goes on trial

Introducing species from one region of the world into another region has more often ended in tears of sorrow than joy, which is why it is discouraged in guidelines issued by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

BBC: Branson lemur plans bear fruit

Federer's route to a second success in Estoril has been made easier by the withdrawal of Croatian second seed Ivan Ljubicic, who has pulled out due to the stomach strain that ended the world No. 14's campaign in Rome.

CNN: Federer registers first clay win of 2010

But the flow has swelled since the 1990s, when apartheid ended and South Africa opened up to the world.

ECONOMIST: South Africa and immigration

Afghanistan and Pakistan have been excluded, and the initiative has ended up more like a traditional development project in the Arab world than an attempt to use democratisation as an instrument in the war on terror.

ECONOMIST: A creaking partnership

Charlie Manuel has won a World Series and two pennants with the Philadelphia Phillies, but their streak of five NL East championships ended last year.

WSJ: Gardenhire, Girardi, Manuel facing the pressure