Winners

Swedish millionaires: Get a big tax cut.

China: Strikes oil for the first time in years.

Russian democracy: Putin rejects a proposal to change the constitution to allow a third term.

George Costanza: Fictional character gets his own foreign policy doctrine.

Northern Ireland: Rival leaders learn to share.

Losers

Iran: Gives wrong coordinates while accusing Brits of straying into Iranian waters.

U.N. Human Rights Council: Proves itself once and for all to be worse than useless.

Sting: Bono named Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his work on poverty, making him outrank the former Police singer.

MC Rove: The White House advisor may be in hot water, but there's still no reason to jump up and down about it.

HIV/AIDS: Male circumcision and green tea may slow down the spread of the deadly disease.