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...incidentally, died in 1991 - as people snapped up domain names like KeyboardCat.com and PlayHimOffKeyboardCat.com So how did he finally make bank? Part of the money comes from a mobile-phone application, T-shirt designs and licensing agreements; he just inked a deal to let a group in Sweden remix Fatso's signature ditty. But the bulk of the money comes from YouTube. In July, Schmidt snagged an invite to the YouTube partner program, which overlays hit videos with related ads and gives the originator a cut of the revenue...
...Whether the singers hail from Cyprus, Macedonia or Sweden, unrequited puppy love is the dominant theme. During Saturday's competition, 12-year-old Ekaterina Ryabova from Russia stomped on a desk and pined for her absent prince: "I've got questions in my head. They are like wasps. What a mess!" And 10-year-old Laura Omloop from Belgium waxed poetic about her schoolyard crush - wearing lederhosen and yodeling, "I gaze deep into his eyes, and a thousand rainbows fill the skies, and I feel so yodel-e yodel-e yodel...
...people of your country, 'I'm on my way to another job. On Monday, I'm back again and I didn't get it, but I still love you,' " Reinfeldt said. "Sorry, anyone who has been in politics knows that that's unrealistic." (See 10 things to do in Sweden...
...attracted high-profile backers like Brown and Sarkozy, its track record is thin. When Tobin first proposed the idea in 1972, it was seen as a way to stop currency speculators after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, but it was never imposed. Sweden enacted a tax on certain financial transactions in the 1980s but ditched it in 1991 after trading volumes sank. (See pictures of President Sarkozy in London...
...Hassan shares with an Iraqi refugee and a fellow Somali, he shows pictures of his wife, son and daughter in Mogadishu. A calendar hangs on the wall as the sole decoration in an otherwise spartan room with two beds and a lonely CD player. Had he made it to Sweden, Hassan says he would have had his wife and children travel to meet him there. Now, he thinks he made a mistake in leaving. "Given a choice," he says, "I would love to go back home...