California - which would be the world's ninth-largest economy if it were a nation - must pass a fiscal plan by 15 June.

BBC: California unveils plan to plug $15.7bn budget gap

The best fly-halves in the world can kick, pass and read the game.

BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | Get Involved | David Humphreys fly-half guide

In the Albula Valley the track spirals to gain height, and around the austere grandeur of the Bernina Pass becomes one of the world's steepest narrow-gauge railways.

BBC: Swiss movement

And that's true even if everyone knows you're the fastest man in the world, if you're the reigning Olympic champion, if you hold the world record - nothing gets you a free pass to Beijing.

NPR: U.S. Track Stars Vie for Spots on Olympic Team

But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.

ECONOMIST: Panama

Because for me, it was a flame that my father passed on to me, through a brother who served in Vietnam, from his service in World War Two, to my twenty-two years and now we pass that flame on to my nephew, who has already done two tours of duty in Afghanistan.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Keeping "the flame" burning

"A valid alternative would be to create a single library or repository able to search databases around the world - just like an internet search engine, rather than having one vast library or pass data between each other, " a Home Office spokesman said.

BBC: More than two million DNA samples are in the UK database

Maximum delays of more than three hours were predicted for some flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by the number of passengers who pass through it.

WSJ: Airlines, pilots sue government to stop furloughs