IN BOSTON Chris Botti * * *

CDs ejected as the car goes wireless

FEARS of a sovereign debt meltdown in Europe are showing signs of receding, as credit markets welcome Greece's promise to slash spending.

GROWING fears over ballooning public debt in Greece and Portugal have sparked a fresh round of global credit markets jitters, which threaten to push up funding costs for Australian banks.

IMAGINE Daffy Duck is reading this aloud: a singing Scottish spinster has been the sound of summer so far, while the sights of summer have been big blue bio-weapons, a dynamic doctor-detective duo and a voluptuous but vituperative vicar. Plus the customary cricket and candlelit carols, of course.