NATIONAL POST - Watch Sergio Garcia’s crazy tree shot at Bay Hill: video, Mar 25, 2013

"ORLANDO, Fla. — Sergio Garcia might want to change his name to Tarzan. Garcia provided an amazing highlight Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational when he climbed some 15 feet into an oak tree and played a shot back out to the fairway. “First, I went up there to identify the ball and then saw that I could make the shot with just one hand,” Garcia said on his website. “Luckily, it went well.”"
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REUTERS - EU Commission says capital controls in Cyprus must be brief, Mar 25, 2013

"(Reuters) - Cyprus may impose controls on the movement of capital but only for a temporary period of time, the European Commission said on Monday, hours after the island sealed a deal to close its second-largest bank in return for international aid. "Any measures to restrict or limit freedom of movement may only be enacted exceptionally and temporarily and that is what has been requested by the Cypriot authorities," Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner responsible for the 27-member European Union's single market, told a news conference in Brussels. "This is a restriction on movement that may only last a few days," he said. Barnier's remarks, where he underscored the need for any restrictions to be as brief as possible, adds to pressure on Cyprus to resume business as normal for its remaining banks as soon as possible. Banks in Cyprus remain closed and the country is expected to continue some controls on the movement of money when they reopen. "
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NORTH KOREA: U.S., South Korea sign contingency plan against attack, Mar 25, 2013

"The U.S. and South Korea signed a contingency plan of action against attacks from North Korea, which this month threatened preemptive nuclear strikes against the two allies. General James Thurman, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, signed the agreement on March 22 with South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Jung Seung Jo, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said on Monday in a statement on its website. The document outlines South Korean-led, U.S.-backed action against various scenarios from a North Korean provocation, the ministry said. The two militaries decided to draft a joint blueprint after North Korea shelled the South Korean border island of Yeonpyeong in November 2010."
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INDEPENDENT - Cyprus bailout: Large deposits will be seized and second-largest bank closed in €10bn EU bailout deal, Mar 25, 2013

"An 11th-hour deal with the EU, which has saved the Cypriot economy from the brink, will see investors with more than €100,000 in the nation’s largest banks forfeit a large chunk of their deposits. The punishing deal – which has been approved by the eurozone finance ministers – will allow the country to receive the €10bn (£8.5bn) bailout it needed before the European Central Bank pulled funding and sent the island on the path to bankruptcy and a possible exit from the single currency. Under the new agreement, all bank deposits under €100,000 will be secured and guaranteed by the state. The country's second-biggest bank, The Popular Bank of Cyprus – known as Laiki – will be closed whilst holders of deposits of more than €100,000 face big losses."
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TIME - Must-Reads from Around the World, Mar 25, 2013

 "Cyber Warriors — South Korea security experts believe North Korea has been training teams of tech-savvy “cyber warriors,” reports the Associated Press, as cyberspace becomes a heated battleground between the two countries. Students at North Korea’s top science schools are reportedly trained to become hackers, with some sent to study abroad in China and Russia. "
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TV 3 - Cyprus agree bailout deal, Mar 25, 2013

"Cyprus has been potentially saved from bankruptcy and the collapse of its financial system after a ten billion euro bailout was agreed. The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiade, helped secured the help of Eurozone finance ministers in Brussels this morning. In return for emergency funding, Cyprus is to wind up its second largest national bank and split it into a so called “good bank/bad bank.” Deposits below one hundred thousand euro will be guaranteed but above that sum depositors face significant losses. The finance minister says that the deal will held to remove the question marks which hang over the country’s future financial health."
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