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	2012 JULY July 31, 2012 News Wrap: Congress Passes Stop-Gap Measure to Fund Government Until March In other news Tuesday, Congress passed a stop-gap measure with bipartisan support, which will avoid a government shutdown in September. Also, imprisoned Russian protester Alexei Navalny claims he has been framed as part of Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to silence dissidents and opposition.

	July 31, 2012 Social Media Users Express Disappointment with NBC's Olympics Coverage Using hashtags like #NBCFail, Olympics fans have tweeted complaints of delayed and incomplete programming and streaming restrictions for the London Games. Gwen Ifill talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan and The New York Times' Richard Sandomir about how online viewers are experiencing NBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics.

	July 31, 2012 Medals and Milestones for U.S. Athletes at the London Olympics On Day 5 of the 2012 Games, Gwen Ifill reports on the performance of U.S. Olympians so far, including the triumphs for the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team and swimmers Michael Phelps, Allison Schmitt and Missy Franklin.

	July 31, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman looks at a book in the "aMAZEme" labyrinth at the Southbank Centre in London on Tuesday. Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo used 250,000 books to create the maze, which will be on display through Aug 25.

	July 31, 2012 Romney's Comments in Israel Overshadow Visit to Poland Remarks Mitt Romney made over the weekend in Israel have overshadowed his visit to Poland, where on Tuesday he delivered a major foreign policy speech in Warsaw praising the friendship between the United States and the Eastern European nation.

	July 27, 2012 Hosting the Olympic Games: Is it Worth the Hassle? For Britain, money, reputation and national pride all hang upon the success of the 2012 London Olympics. But in the end, will it all be worth it? Ray Suarez speaks with Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College and University of Colorado's John MacAloon about whether investments pay off for host countries of Olympic Games.

	July 27, 2012 Industrial Revolution to James Bond, Opening Ceremonies Honor British History The 2012 Summer Olympics have officially begun. And the open ceremonies pay tribute to Britain's rich history. Independent Television News' Paraic O'Brien reports the excitement and anticipation as the torch neared Olympic Stadium in London.

	July 27, 2012 Let the Games Begin: Romney Tries to Rebound From Olympics Gaffe We're 101 days from Election Day, but everyone's looking overseas. The Olympics, played in the shadows of Parliament and Big Ben this year, won't escape American politics, since Mitt Romney is in the country for the first leg of his six-day campaign trip abroad.

	July 26, 2012 Olympics Preview: Reporting Results in Record Time; A Runner with 'Cheetah Legs' Olympics-watchers have more options than ever for following the Games as they happen. Ray Suarez talks to sports writer Christine Brennan from London about security, how to watch and what to watch, including high-profile swimming, track and field and gymnastics match-ups, plus the story of a South African double-amputee runner.

	July 26, 2012 Countdown Begins for Olympic Games as Torch Travels Past London Landmarks As the torch for the Olympics traveled through London, anticipation for the opening ceremonies was palpable. Independent Television News' Geraint Vincent reports from London while final preparations are completed for the start of the 2012 Games.

	July 26, 2012 British Paper Puts Romney on Defense as Foreign Trip Begins It wasn't the first time an unnamed adviser's comment to the media sparked a political spat, and it's highly unlikely to be the last before Nov. 6. It also wasn't the headline presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney probably wanted as he began his trip abroad and certainly not what he wanted to be defending.

	July 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A mural depicting Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks over east London on Thursday, two days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

	July 25, 2012 Worst Place to Receive HIV Treatment? Science magazine's Jon Cohen speaks with Jackie Judd of the Kaiser Family Foundation about preliminary science that may show why East Africans could be at a disadvantage when being treated for HIV.

	July 25, 2012 Security Tension High After Schoolboy Boarded Flight Without Passport or Ticket Eleven-year-old Liam Corcoran arrived at Manchester Airport in Britain with no ticket, passport or boarding pass; somehow he evaded five security checkpoints and flew to Rome. Independent Television News' Ciaran Jenkins reports on measures to tighten security ahead of the London Olympics.

	July 25, 2012 News Wrap: United Kingdom Reports Recession Worse than Expected In other news Wednesday, newly released figures show the British economy has fallen deeper into recession than predicted. Also, officials in Anaheim, Cal., called for a cease to a four-day run of violence in reaction to the weekend killing of two hispanic men by police.

	July 25, 2012 Sudden Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've ever seen in our lifetimes.

	July 25, 2012 What Caused the Sudden Burst of Extreme Ice Melt in Greenland? Map showing the four day period this July that the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate and at higher elevations than satellite data had ever recorded.

	July 24, 2012 Should 'Poor Countries' Be Doing More to Finance Their HIV Fights? Science Magazine reporter Jon Cohen speaks with the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd about a call today for a new approach to financing the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

	July 23, 2012 Big AIDS News Coming This Week? Study May Suggest 'Cure' Is Close Science magazine reporter Jon Cohen speaks with the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd about the willingness of scientists to discuss the possibility of a "cure" for HIV/AIDS. Here, Cohen highlights a report that will be released later this week that may fuel that conversation.

	July 23, 2012 The Daily Frame A sculpture called "Sandworm" by Marco Casagrande sits on the Belgian coast in Wenduine during Beaufort04, the fourth edition of the Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea.

	July 23, 2012 Spain's Death Spiral Last week Spain broke the supposedly magic 7 percent barrier, its rate to borrow money for ten years rising to 7.18 percent on Friday, 7.4 Monday morning. By contrast, Germany can borrow money at 1.17 percent; the U.S., 1.41 percent, the lowest rate we've had to pay for a 10-year loan in our entire history.

	July 23, 2012 Watch AIDS Conference Coverage Live Watch live throughout the week as world leaders discuss where the world stands in the fight against HIV and what needs to happen politically, socially and medically for this to become "the beginning of the end" of the epidemic.

	July 20, 2012 News Wrap: Spain Passes Austerity Measures to Fix Debt Crisis, Citizens Protest In other news Friday, Spaniards gathered in 80 Spanish cities to protest austerity measures. Also, the U.S. Treasury Department warns benchmarks for global interest rates are still flawed. This announcement comes three weeks after Barclays Bank admitted to falsifying 2007 and 2008 information on borrowing costs.

	July 19, 2012 News Wrap: Suicide Bomber in Bulgaria Had Fake Michigan Driver's License In other news Thursday, Bulgarian officials announced that the suicide bomber responsible for Wenesday's bus attack in Burgas had a fake Michigan driver's license. Also, organizers of the London Olympics fear huge delays at Heathrow Airport as British border guards announce a 24-hour strike for the eve of the Games.

	July 18, 2012 Planning for the 2012 Olympics, Britain's 'Largest Peacetime Operation' With a little more than a week until the Olympic opening ceremonies, issues such as transportation, weather and security have arisen. Gwen Ifill talks with Stephen Wilson of The Associated Press and Kevin Wamsley of University of Western Ontario about whether organizers are fully prepared for the start of the games.

	July 18, 2012 Olympics Organizers Grapple with Security Concerns Organizers of the London Olympic Games face security concerns and unfinished opening ceremonies with only nine more days to go. Keir Simmons of Independent Television News has a report.

	July 18, 2012 News Wrap: Israel Blames Iran for Bus Attack In other news Wednesday, a bomb exploded on a bus transporting Israeli youth in a resort town in Bulgaria, killing at least six people. In Northern Afghanistan, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a bomb that damaged 22 NATO supply trucks.

	July 18, 2012 The Daily Frame Godffrey Evans, principal curator of European Applied Art, holds a Byzantine sardonyx bowl mounted on a 16th century gold stand, the most valuable object to enter the collection of the National Museum of Scotland.

	July 17, 2012 Olympics Security: 'Exploitation Compounded by Bad Management' Less than two weeks before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the United Kingdom is facing new questions on whether G4S, the private security contractor for the Olympics, has hired enough security guards to ensure safety and security during the Games. Simon Israel of Independent Television News reports from London.

	July 16, 2012 Weekly Poem: 'Quarantine' Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most recently, "New Collected Poems." She is also professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Stanford University.

	July 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers with the STREB Extreme Action Company perform on top of London's city hall as part of Sunday's "One Extraordinary Day" performances celebrating the Olympics.

	July 13, 2012 Staggering Losses at JPMorgan; Banking Scandal in Britain Jeffrey Brown talks to Bloomberg's Dawn Kopecki about the losses at JPMorgan Chase and the role of government regulators in monitoring the banking industry. Plus, they discuss the scandal over the manipulation of the Libor.

	July 12, 2012 Parades Commission Blamed for Violence Around Protestant March Attempts to prevent violence at a contentious annual Protestant-Loyalist Orange Order parade in North Belfast appeared to backfire Thursday when protestors clashed with police in a Catholic part of town.

	July 12, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor walks through an installation made of around a million photos downloaded and printed from flickr by artist Erik Kessels at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel museum in Kiel, Germany. From July 14 to Oct. 21, the show "Von Sinnen" (Out of Mind) will present works by 38 artists focusing on the perception of art.

	July 11, 2012 Peace in Northern Ireland, But Religious Divide Remains Protesters have been out on the streets of Belfast in recent days in advance of Thursday's annual parade honoring Protestant King William's victory over his Catholic rival in 1690. Special correspondent Kira Kay reports on the ongoing religious tension -- 14 years after Ireland's sectarian conflict formally ended.

	July 11, 2012 Bridging Belfast's Divided Catholic and Protestant Communities Belfast's Ardoyne Road is a street of division. A half-mile in length, the road stretches through the Catholic neighborhood of Ardoyne then into Upper Ardoyne, a Protestant area to the north.

	July 11, 2012 The Daily Frame A spider's web is woven around Christoph Poeggeler's sculpture of a kissing couple in Duesseldorf, Germany.

	July 10, 2012 News Wrap: Eurozone Agrees to Spain Bailout Package; Oil Prices Fall In other news Tuesday, Spain will get its first bailout payment of more than $36 billion before the end of the month. In early trading on Wall Street, stocks moved higher, but gains were erased by falling oil prices.

	July 6, 2012 Britain's Barclays Investigated for Rigging Libor Rates In a scandal that triggered a CEO resignation, an investigation and basic questions about the integrity of the financial system, British bank Barclays paid $450 million in fines last week to settle accusations that it helped rig the Libor rate. Margaret Warner discusses the fallout with David Enrich of the Wall Street Journal.

	July 5, 2012 Compared to Europe, Does the U.S. Really Have Its Act Together? Europe: Are its conflicting sovereignties in a federation like America's in 1789? Is our act really "together" today? Where did the current financial crisis begin, in Old Europe or in our New World?

	July 4, 2012 What the 'Rock Star' Discovery of the Higgs Boson Means for Science What exactly is the Higgs boson, and why is its discovery so fundamental to understanding particle physics? Author and Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample has the details.

	July 4, 2012 Physicists Discover Clear Evidence of Elusive Higgs Boson Scientists announced on Wednesday they have evidence of the much sought-after Higgs boson, a subatomic particle thought to endow all other particles -- and by extension all matter in the universe -- with mass. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports.

	July 4, 2012 Physicists Announce Long-Awaited Evidence of 'God Particle' Scientists in Geneva have found a particle, and they think it's the Higgs boson, the squirrely, elusive subatomic particle believed to be responsible for giving size, shape and - let's just say it, life - to all matter in the universe.

	July 3, 2012 IMF Warns of 'Tepid' U.S. Recovery, Offers Policy Advice Judy Woodruff talks to Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, which today released its annual report and offered recommendations to President Obama and Washington. They discuss the IMF recommendations, the U.S. debt, and what's at stake if the U.S. fails to heed the advice.



	JUNE June 29, 2012 EU Ambassador on Debt Crisis Deal: 'Major Step Forward' EU Ambassador to the United States Joao Vale de Almeida told Jeffrey Brown an agreement among eurozone nations that includes creating a bank rescue fund is a "major step forward" in solving the region's debt crisis.

	June 29, 2012 Eurozone Leaders Agree to Bail Out and Supervise Banks After tough negotiations, eurozone nations brokered a deal to use a bailout fund to recapitalize banks in European Union states and establish a supervisory mechanism for banks. James Mates of Independent Television News provides a report.

	June 27, 2012 Despite Historic Handshake, Belfast Still Deeply Divided Society While we were filming in Belfast last week, the question on everyone's mind was whether "Martin would meet the Queen" when she passed through Northern Ireland as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebration.

	June 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman views the exhibition "Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye" at the Tate Modern in London on Tuesday. The major exhibition of Munch's work features more than 60 paintings that examine how the Norwegian artist revisited different motifs, which he developed in his paintings over time.

	June 25, 2012 The Daily Frame Naked volunteers painted in red and gold pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick in scenes meant to illustrate the opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner at Max-Joseph Platz in Munich on Saturday.

	June 21, 2012 At Euro 2012, Germany and Greece Face Off in Battle of the Eurozone When mighty Germany meets debt-ridden Greece in soccer's European championship quarterfinal on Friday, it will be hard to ignore the symbolism through which many will view the match. Jeffrey Brown speaks with longtime soccer analyst Tommy Smyth about the mood ahead of the clash.