When Bill and I arrived at our apartment in Paris, Bruno our host said, "Have you heard the news?" Now this was the morning of the Canadian election and I thought, "He's heard who the new Prime Minister is?!"
"They've killed Bin Laden!" -- that was the news. We'd arrived the day Bin Laden was killed and Stephen Harper won a majority in Canada. The British Royal wedding had just happened too - witness this Parisian kiosk.