How many times have you seen a billboard announce 'If you see only one film this year'. Well, "If you only read one straight financial article this year, this week's Economist is a must for you". Free article

What do Charlie McCreevy, the Central Bank, employers' leader Turlough O'Sullivan and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder have in common this week? Well, all four are concerned about workers' wages, and as Schroder sums it up, "the tender bud of economic growth". Free article

Turkish death faster Meryem Altun has become the 50th person to die in the ongoing hunger strike against the introduction of high security prisons in Turkey. Altun, 26, had been fasting for 301 days when she died on Monday 1 April. Free article

Ós rud é gur chaith mé Oíche Dhomhnach na Cásca ag gabháil do bhuidéal uisce beatha le cara de mo chuid, ba é an t-uisce beatha céanna a thug spreagadh dom alt beag a scríobh na seachtaine seo. Free article