That awkward moment when Greece rejects all its creditors’ demands, then has to ask them for money

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NEED TO KNOW

Mr. Tspiras is going to Brussels. But the negotiating table that Greece’s anti-austerity prime minister sits 'round today has changed significantly since last he was at it: he won’t have with him his former finance minister and strongest ally, Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned yesterday. He will take into the room the voices of nearly four million Greeks who said no to another helping of spending cuts for the sake of emergency loans.

The Greeks know what they don’t want, so now it’s up to them to say what they do want. The rest of the euro zone has ordered Athens to come up with some “serious” proposals. France, for one, has indicated it will do everything it can to keep Greece in the single currency, since the alternative is just too scary. But Germany — the architect and the money-man behind the EU’s cash-for-cuts strategy — is taking a harder line. For Europe’s biggest economy, the risks of writing off Greece’s debts could be just as frightening as cutting the country loose.

And Greece, let’s not forget, needs that sweet German cash. There may have been parties across the country when voters rejected the bailout, but as the cheering stops and the flags come down, Greece is running on empty. Banks remain closed today and cash withdrawals are capped. Even food and medicine are starting to run low. Believe us, things are bad. Here’s just how bad.

WANT TO KNOW

First they sent the drugs. Then they sent the rapists. Now, at least according to the — er — unique mind of Donald Trump, Mexico is sending the sickness.

The wannabe Republican president’s latest claim about Mexican immigrants to the US is that they’re to blame for “tremendous infectious disease… pouring across the border.” Hmm. Sounds like somebody needs a lesson in epidemiology. And diplomacy. And facts.

While Trump likes to trumpet the southern border as a one-way chute for Mexico’s worst people, the numbers tell a different story. Plenty comes back from “El Norte,” not least much-needed cash. GlobalPost looked at the figures: the first three months of this year, Mexicans living abroad sent home $5.7 billion, most of that earned in the US.

These types of transfers from migrants now give the country more foreign currency than it makes selling oil abroad. And those dollars provide a lifeline for millions of poor families, often enabling them to buy basic food, medicine or school books. Hey Donald, turns out you were right: “some” Mexican migrants are, like you assumed, “good people.”

STRANGE BUT TRUE

Rule one of adapting American TV for an Indian audience: Don’t talk about hell. Rule two: Don’t talk about butts. Rule three: Don’t talk about cows. For the sake of all that’s decent, don’t mention the cows.

The list of things you can’t say on Indian TV is growing. Many of India’s millions of urban English speakers are avid consumers of American shows and Hollywood movies, which have always required a certain amount of adaptation — read “bleeping” — to make them fit for local sensibilities. Since voters elected a Hindu nationalist government to power last year, however, the number of things considered too “naughty” to air has spiked.

Curse words are out, unsurprisingly, but so are just… words. Words like “condom” or “sex” or “butt,” which enterprising TV execs once replaced with “boat.” So keen are networks not to fall foul of the Hindu government that they’ve even taken to removing references to beef from foreign shows (this, in a country that’s one of the world’s largest exporters of the stuff).

The result, says our correspondent, is that popular culture finds itself stifled. Censoriousness, sensitivity and fear of offending are the order of the day — and the freedom to enjoy re-runs of 'Friends' unbleeped can go to hell. Sorry, to "inferno."