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Things we are not yet getting right in this world:

Would rose-coloured glasses help?

While most Europeans seem to have been watching football last night the BBC briefly had a headline story, that by today had sunk lower in the news list: "S African Chinese ‘become black.’" The Supreme Court in South Africa ruled in favour of the 200,000 ethnic Chinese in the country who argued they have been discriminated against. First, they say, during apartheid when they were considered to be of mixed race, and now, when they have been considered white, which means not benefitting from policies to end white domination in business and elsewhere.

Cocoa leaves for your starter course

AFP has photos of desolate corn fields in Iowa under water and headlines around the world focus on the shortage of food, the  impact of crop losses on the already high commodity prices. Meanwhile, in Colombia, reports Al Jazeera,  the UN has been "shocked" to discover that cocoa production, the base of the cocaine industry, is back up to 2002 levels despite the US spending $5 billion a year to eradicate it. Colombia is the "world’s primary producer of cocaine," the article notes.

The good news for the day comes from the BBC, where a woman, eight months pregnant and trapped in Sichuan earthquake rubble for 50 hours, has given birth to an apparently healthy girl. The BBC video is a bright spot.

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