Newsline - 23 April 2010: It's been a bad week for the bean counters in Brussels as first the airlines and then Greece demand a financial bail-out. Why violent video games just might be good for you. And how Russian bureaucrats have just made life tougher for foreigners.

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Bad week for EU finances
Greece sounded the alarm bell on Friday and formally asked the EU for a bail-out. There are other candidates lining up for an EU bail-out as well: all the airlines that were grounded because of the volcanic ash from Iceland. So everybody seems to be knocking on the EU treasurer's doors - but will anybody answer it? Vanessa Mock reports from Brussels.

Train your brain with video games
Video games in which you have to kill as many opponents as possible are frowned upon by many. Blamed for being addictive and causing violent behaviour, they're generally seen as anything but beneficial. But new Dutch research shows that these games might be good for your brain. Listen to what cognitive psychology Prof Dr Bernard Hommel has to say about it.

Russian red tape bad for foreign workers
Russia has long been known as the land of bureaucracy, but lately red tape has taken on a whole new meaning for foreign workers there. Correspondent Jessica Golloher reports on an obscure law that Russia has suddenly started to enforce - but why?