A scientist describes Saturn’s moon Titan as potentially looking ‘a bit like Sweden’. No comment is available from the Swedes at this time, but Norwegian comedians are reportedly working overtime

A Guardian Q&A on the working rights citizens of the 10 accession countries will have in the 15 current members of the EU

The first jackpot - ?15million - in the EuroMillions lottery was won by someone who bought their ticket in France, the BBC reports

Kofi Annan will have the power to set the final terms for a referendum on the reunification of Cyprus raising real hopes that the island could be reunified before it joins the EU

Der Spiegel only seems to have some of the facts about the pretender to the British throne. I have some more information on it here from when the news came out in Britain in January.

Ivan Rybkin now claims that his disappearance wasn’t entirely voluntary after all. Just to be on the safe side, he’ll stay abroad till the elections are over. (From the BBC.)

If Der Spiegel has its facts right, Elizabeth II is a pretender and the true King a beer-drinking Australian farmer. If so, this would clear things up for the Scots, who wonder how they can have an Elizabeth ‘the second’ when they never had a first one: Good Queen Bess would’ve had as little claim to the throne as her latter-day namesake. The putative King Mike I, though, would just as soon stay on in Oz with his mates. (Report in German.)

The European Commission has approved the merger of Air France and KLM

Britain’s Conservatives have agreed a deal to remain within the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament

From the BBC: headscarf ban passes in French lower house by huge majority.