A selection of world news headlines from around the web.

• The Decline of Creativity in the United States
• College offers £5,000 for failing exam
• Britain Looks to Graduates to Pick Up the Tuition Tab
• How Mandelbrot’s fractals changed the world
• French strikes force petrol stations to shut
• ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
• Cybersecurity may be winner despite Britain’s cuts
• Two million have their identity stolen every year