The world is changing.

This year’s long-anticipated “Black Friday”, the Friday that follows Thanksgiving, may have come under the shadow of the 20th anniversary of Black Monday (Oct. 19th)

During my stay in the United States, I was deeply impressed to find that lots of the MP3 players and laptops people use are made by Apple. The electrical stores are full of Apple-friendly products like iHome^TM (clock radio for iPod), iGroove^TM (SXT sound system for iPod), and ionAudio^TM (portable PA system with Dock for iPod), etc.

Good news for all the "Star-buckers" in China: they no longer have to go to Carrefour's imported goods shelf to buy bottles of their favorite Frappucino, from now on they can just pick one up in any convenience store, at an even lower price. The Seattle-based coffee company launched a Chinese version of their bottled drinks last Thursday in three Chinese cities, including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.

The day after the euro was launched in 2002, the Europeans found their old wallets were not big enough to hold their new banknotes. The new euro notes are larger than most of the currencies used within the Union at that time.

In Egypt, unlike other Muslim countries, people maintain a unique tradition: every time women go out shopping, their children walk in the front of the group, carrying a lantern to make way for their mothers. Later, the judge found it to be a good way and turned it into a rule that must be practiced during Ramadan.