Money. As Pink Floyd once sung "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash."

EU finance ministers, however, are now having second thoughts about their decision over a decade ago to issue €500 notes, one of the highest value denomination in general circulation. It seems there is growing concern that these notes are making life easier for terrorists, money launderers and drug barons.

Steps have already been taken in France, the site of two bloody terrorist attacks last year, to limit the ability of extremists to use cash to fund their operations. Since September, French citizens can only make cash payments of €1,000. If in any given month someone either withdraws or deposits more than €10,000, they are automatically checked by money-laundering authorities.

Only the Swiss have a higher value note in circulation - the Swiss 1,000 franc note (worth $975 or £707). But then that shouldn't be too surprising. They are Swiss after all!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

• Education officials in Japan have announced that new guidelines regarding human pyramids in schools will be drafted by the end of March.

• Guinness World Records confirmed a British resort broke a world record with a 3-foot, 4-inch tall stack of pancakes.

• A town in Slovenia announced it is moving forward with plans to build a nearly $400,000 fountain that dispenses drinkable local beers.

• A tourist visiting the Great Wall of China took a speed run down the attraction's alpine slide and crashed when he reached the end of the track.

• A seal dubbed Sammy by residents of an Irish town was recorded engaging in his daily ritual: crossing a road to beg for fish from a seafood restaurant.

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