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The US dollar, a long-time safe haven for investors, is reaching historic highs against emerging markets' currencies but also against big players like the Euro and the British pound. What impact is this having around the globe? We ask Steve Hanke, a professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.

Last year, the Premier League's summer transfer window stood at more than $1.7bn. Will this record be beaten this year? We hear more from Tim Bridge, lead partner of Deloitte's Sports Business Group.

The Swiss Guard, the elite force in charge of protecting the Pope and the Vatican, is recruiting to expand from 110 to 135 members. Only young Swiss Catholic men can apply, but is it a good career move? Andreas Widmer thinks so. He is a former Swiss guard and now the director of the Arthur & Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America's Busch School of Business. He tells us why.

Taro Kono, a government minister in Japan, is pushing for a purge of outdated technology. One of the first to go is the floppy disk. But there are people who think otherwise and want to keep using devices that the younger generations had never seen in their life. We discuss with Kari Paul, a technology reporter for The Guardian US, what the appeal of vintage technology is.

(Picture: The US currency rises to mid-139 yen level. Picture credit: EPA.)