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	2012 MAY May 24, 2012 Eurozone's Possible 'Lehman Moment': What it Means for U.S. As the U.S. election season heats up amid rising debt, Europe's woes, expiring Bush-era tax cuts and a scheduled round of spending cuts, the Congressional Budget Office warned the economy could head back into recession. Judy Woodruff speaks with Harvard University's Ken Rogoff and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute.

	May 24, 2012 Fate of Eurozone: Back on the Brink? Economic divisions between France and Germany were reinforced Wednesday at a summit on Europe's debt crisis with austerity, promises of economic growth and a potential euro exit by Greece among the topics of open and vocal debate. Jeffrey Brown and The Economist's Zanny Minton discuss what's ahead for the eurozone.

	May 24, 2012 In Europe, Balancing Germany's Austerity Push With Hopes for Growth After an inconclusive meeting of European leaders in Brussels ended Wednesday, new data showed a worsening economic contraction throughout the continent. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	May 23, 2012 Greece, Spain Deeply Uncertain About Economic Futures As the eurozone's economic woes worsened Wednesday, European leaders gathered in Brussels -- bracing for the possibility that Greece will drop the euro. Spain is also on the brink of sliding from a recession into a depression. Jonathan Rugman and Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News report.

	May 23, 2012 The Daily Frame A family picnics next to a sculpture of a crashed flying saucer. "Vex" by artist Dinu Li is part of the Tatton Park Biennial in Knutsford, England. This year's exhibition, which runs until September, explores "Flights of Fancy" and includes the work of more than 20 artists.

	May 21, 2012 Remembering Opera Singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who died Friday at age 86, was a master of the Lieder, a form of German song that he helped make popular in the 20th century. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Anne Midgette, a classical music critic for The Washington Post, about Fischer-Dieskau's legacy.

	May 21, 2012 NATO Tensions: Inside and Outside As world leaders struggle to work out details of an exit strategy from Afghanistan, police pushed back hundreds of protesters who were trying to reach the site of the NATO summit in Chicago this week.

	May 18, 2012 News Wrap: Greece Uncertainty, Austerity Top Agenda at G-8 Summit In other news Friday, leaders of some of the world's largest economies began gathering at Camp David in Maryland for the G-8 summit. Also, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested Greece hold a referendum on staying in the eurozone, according to a spokesman for Greece's caretaker government.

	May 17, 2012 News Wrap: Future of Eurozone Uncertain as Greek Credit Rating Drops In other news Thursday, questions kept coming about the future of the eurozone. By all accounts, money was flowing out of Greece where far-left leaders are agitating to break a bailout agreement and end austerity measures. Also, a fight over solar panels flared into the open between the U.S. and China.

	May 17, 2012 The Daily Frame A group of 333 bagpipers in Sofia, Bulgaria, set the Guinness world record for the largest bagpipe performance on Wednesday.

	May 16, 2012 As Mladic Stands Trial, 'In One Sense, the War Criminals Won' Facing 11 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic finally went before an international court Wednesday after more than 15 years on the run. Jeffrey Brown and Michael Dobbs of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum discuss the case and Mladic's war crimes charges tied to the Bosnian civil war.

	May 16, 2012 Bosnia's Ratko Mladic Stands Trial on Genocide, War Crimes Charges After more than 15 years on the run, Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic -- once one of the world's most-wanted fugitives -- finally went on trial before an international court Wednesday. Mladic faces 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes tied to the Bosnian Civil War in the 1990s. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	May 16, 2012 News Wrap: Greece Appoints Interim Government Amid Fears of Euro Exit In other news Wednesday, Greece appointed an interim government as it struggled to escape a deepening political crisis. The country faces new elections on June 17. Also, former Liberian President Charles Taylor offered no apologies at a U.N. tribunal for fomenting civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone in the late 1990s.

	May 16, 2012 In Moscow, Writers Lead Anti-Putin Protest From Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Griboyedov, there is a long history in Russia of writers confronting government authority. Last weekend, the tradition continued when a group of 12 well-known authors drew a crowd of around 10,000 to follow them on a "controlled walk" between statues of the two Aleksandrs in downtown Moscow.

	May 16, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks past "Living together" by Chinese artist Xu Jiang at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau museum in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday. The show, "Xu Jiang: Re-Generation," runs from May 17 through August 18.

	May 15, 2012 How Europe's Turmoil Rattles World Markets Greece's political turmoil intensified Tuesday amid calls for fresh elections. Ray Suarez gets the latest from reporter John Psaropoulos. He then turns to Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Nicholas Burns of Harvard Kennedy School for more analysis on the economic impact worldwide.

	May 15, 2012 On the Brink of Insolvency, Greece to Hold Fresh Elections Nine days after voters divided sharply over drastic austerity measures, Greece teetered toward insolvency and the prospect of yet another round of elections. Other European nations braced for the fallout and worried yet again about the future of their common currency. Ray Suarez reports.

	May 15, 2012 5 Things to Look for at Upcoming NATO and G8 Summits When world leaders gather this weekend at the NATO and Group of Eight summits, they have two major items on the table -- wrapping up the Afghan war and handling Europe's financial crisis. So what are the signs that they will make any progress?

	May 14, 2012 The Daily Frame A puppet of Queen Elizabeth II features in a Punch & Judy show Sunday during a weekend of performances in London to celebrate 350 years since the first performance in England.

	May 11, 2012 'Crossing the Borders of Time': a Tale of Reclaimed Love Lost Amid WWII Author Leslie Maitland speaks with Margaret Warner about her new book, "Crossing the Borders of Time," which chronicles the story of a 15-year-old Jewish girl raised in Germany as the Nazis came to power and her star-crossed romance with an older French Catholic man.

	May 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Moscow subway passengers ride a special exhibition car containing reproductions of watercolors from the State Tretyakov Gallery on Friday.

	May 10, 2012 News Wrap: House GOP Looks for Spending Cuts; Greece Struggles with Government In other news Thursday, House Republicans pushed through a bill to prevent a 10 percent cut in the U.S. defense budget by cutting $300 billion in food stamps, health care and federal pensions, over 10 years. Also, Greece's struggle to form a new government entered a third round.

	May 10, 2012 The Daily Frame A man looks at Czech artist Alfons Mucha's "Slav Epic," a cycle of 20 allegories tracing the history of the Slavic people and inspired in part by mythology, at the National Gallery in Prague on Thursday

	May 8, 2012 Norway's Moms Have It Good Norway is the best country in the world to be a mother, according to a new report from the international nonprofit Save the Children.

	May 7, 2012 What Hollande's Win, Sarkozy's Defeat Mean for Future of Europe's Economy French voters on Sunday elected Socialist candidate Francois Hollande to the presidency -- rebuking sitting leader Nicholas Sarkozy and austerity measures. Jeffrey Brown, The New York Times' Elaine Sciolino, Georgetown University's Charles Kupchan and The Globalist's Stephan Richter discuss the prospects of major policy shifts.

	May 7, 2012 Sarkozy, Austerity Rejected by French Voters In a firm rebuke to France's Nicolas Sarkozy and the fiscal austerity measures he advocated, a beaming Francois Hollande -- the country's Socialist Party president-elect -- promised a "new direction" for his nation and Europe. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	May 7, 2012 The Daily Frame Sculptures of blue sheep flock in Schwerin, Germany, on Friday.

	May 4, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman passes a large print of an original Bauhaus poster on the wall of the Barbican in London. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" is the largest British exhibition in over 40 years of the Bauhaus school of art, includes more than over 400 pieces, and will be on display through Aug. 12.



	APRIL April 27, 2012 Troubling New Signs Plague European, U.S. Economies Even as British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the notion of austerity, governments across Europe were toppling or falling back into recession. Ray Suarez and George Washington University's Scheherazade Rehman discuss problems and potential solutions, both in the U.S. and overseas.

	April 27, 2012 Renewed Recessions Rock Europe Amid Slower Growth in U.S. Romania's government fell in a no-confidence vote Friday while the Czech Republic's government moved to the brink of collapse before surviving a no-confidence vote. The Dutch government collapsed Monday and Spain -- Europe's fourth-largest economy -- fell back into recession. Ray Suarez reports on renewed worries across Europe.

	April 26, 2012 For Murdoch, Concerns His Great Empire Is 'Under Serious Threat' When Rupert Murdoch took the stand Thursday in the second day of a U.K. media ethics inquiry, he coupled an apology for News of the World's "blot" on his News Corp record with accusations that journalists had covered up the phone-hacking. Ray Suarez and The New York Times' John Burns discuss the media mogul's testimony.

	April 26, 2012 'I Failed,' Murdoch Says of Tabloid Scandal While Denying Part in Wrongdoing Media mogul Rupert Murdoch took the stand Thursday in a British media ethics inquiry, describing his News of the World tabloid as a "serious blot" on his News Corp reputation. Murdoch also said he wished the paper behind the phone hacking and cover-up had been shuttered sooner. Paul Davies of Independent Television News reports.

	April 26, 2012 The Daily Frame Local volunteers on Wednesday place some of the 40,000 clay figures that will make up part of Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles" installed in Barrington Court near Ilminster, England.

	April 25, 2012 News Wrap: Murdoch Downplays Political Sway in Media Ethics Inquiry In other news Wednesday, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch appeared before a British inquiry panel to refute charges he had too cozy a relationship with Britain's top politicians, among them former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Also, the U.S. Senate voted to slow down service cuts to the ailing U.S. Postal Service.

	April 24, 2012 The Daily Frame Fans watch the band We Are the In Crowd perform Sunday at the Hit The Deck 2012 Festival at Rock City in Nottingham, England.

	April 23, 2012 How Economic Austerity Is Driving Voter Discontent in Europe President Nicolas Sarkozy took second to socialist candidate Francois Hollande in France's first-round elections Sunday. Ray Suarez and the Brookings Institution's Justin Vaisse discuss Sarkozy's uphill fight and the wider reaction against economic austerity measures in Europe as the Dutch governing coalition collapsed Monday.

	April 23, 2012 France's Sarkozy Faces Uphill Fight in May Runoff Election Handing incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy a narrow defeat in Sunday's first-round election, French voters raised the prospects of Socialist candidate Francois Hollande becoming the nation's next leader after a May 6 runoff. Ray Suarez reports on voters voicing their discontent and how the markets reacted.

	April 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Jeremy Deller bounces on his new work "Sacrilege," a full-scale inflatable replica of Stonehenge and part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts.

	April 20, 2012 IMF's Lagarde: Global Economy Sees 'Dark Clouds on the Horizon' As questions grow about the stability of the worldwide economy now that there are more troubling signs in Europe and mixed reports in the United States, the International Monetary Fund announced the 20 leading industrial and emerging nations have pledged $430 billion to help deal with Europe's problems. Judy Woodruff reports.

	April 19, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor inspects a light installation by artist Anthony McCall during a preview of the exhibition "Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture" at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin on Thuraday. The exhibition on McCall's projections, which he has been developing since the 1970s, opens Friday and runs through August 12.

	April 17, 2012 Norway Massacre: What's Ahead for Admitted Mass Killer Breivik? On trial for allegedly killing 77 people in last year's massacre in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik concluded a day of chilling testimony by telling the court "I would have done it again." Margaret Warner discusses the unique trial with Anders Tvegard, the U.S. correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

	April 17, 2012 Admitted Norway Killer Breivik: 'I Would Have Done it Again' When Anders Behring Breivik, the defendant in last year's Norway's massacre who is accused of killing 77 people, took the witness stand Tuesday, he described the killings as "the most spectacular, sophisticated political act in Europe since the Second World War." Martin Geissler of Independent Television News reports from Oslo.

	April 17, 2012 The Daily Frame "Drift" by artist Ron Mueck is hung by gallery technicians at the Hauser & Wirth gallery on Monday in London. The sculpture is part of Mueck's first major solo exhibition in over a decade, on display Thursday through May 26.

	April 16, 2012 News Wrap: 6 U.N. Observers Arrive in Syria to Monitor Cease-Fire In other news Monday, an advance team of six U.N. observers arrived in Syria overnight to monitor a fading cease-fire. The Syrian army shelled several districts in Homs and at least 14 were killed in blasts, according to activists. Also, the man accused in last July's attacks in Norway pleaded not guilty.

	April 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A security guard stands near a candle sculpture by Urs Fischer during Friday's press preview of the Swiss artist's upcoming solo show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy.

	April 11, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors look at masks and garments on display at "The Masters of Disorder," an exhibit about shamanism, at the Quai Branly Museum Tuesday in Paris.

	April 6, 2012 The Daily Frame The Museum of British Surfing in Braunton, England undergoes last minute preparations Thursday before its opening Friday.

	April 5, 2012 The Daily Frame Restorers work on the painting of a ceiling of the Farmacia di Santa Maria Novella on Wednesday in Florence, Italy.



	MARCH March 29, 2012 The Daily Frame A man looks at sculptures made by Dutch sculptor Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden (1420-1473) on Friday at the Notre-Dame Museum in Strasbourg, France, as part of an exhibition dedicated to his work.

	March 28, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman looks at "My Soul" by Katharine Dowson, a laser-etched, lead-crystal glass sculpture in the shape of a brain created using the artist's own MRI scan. The piece is part of an exhibition called "Brains: The mind as matter" at the Wellcome Collection in London.

	March 27, 2012 The Daily Frame A girl looks up at a painting depicting the launch of the Titanic at Titanic Belfast, a visitor attraction in Belfast, Northern Ireland, opening Saturday.

	March 26, 2012 The Daily Frame Dancers of the English National Ballet perform British choreographer George Williamson's "The Rite of Spring" last week at the London Coliseum. The performance is part of the English National Ballet's "Beyond Ballet Russes" program, which is celebrates the legacy of Sergei Diaghilev's legendary company.

	March 22, 2012 News Wrap: French Shootings Suspect Killed in Raid After Standoff In other news Thursday, a standoff in France ended in a barrage of bullets as police shot and killed a gunman who claimed al-Qaida ties and boasted about killing seven people. Also, one of the few established democracies in Africa fell into a military coup as drunken soldiers looted the presidential palace in Mali.

	March 22, 2012 The Daily Frame A man practices yoga as a couple rests Thursday in the Carrousel Garden at the Louvre in Paris.

	March 21, 2012 French Shootings Renew Homegrown Terrorism Worries Mohamed Merah, an accused gunman claiming ties to al-Qaida, was holed up Wednesday in an apartment in Toulouse, France. Merah is suspected in seven homicides. Margaret Warner and The New York Times' Steven Erlanger discuss France's latest terror concerns.

	March 21, 2012 France Awaits Arrest of Suspected Gunman French police waited early Thursday in Toulouse for an accused gunman to surrender, surrounding an apartment building where Mohamed Merah, a suspect in a series of fatal shootings who claimed ties to al-Qaida, was holed up. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports.

	March 21, 2012 The Daily Frame Visitors study light projections of works by Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh at an audio-visual art show on Tuesday in Les Baux de Provence, France.

	March 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Ninots -- giant cardboard, wood, paper-mache and plaster statues -- burn Monday during the last day of Las Fallas in Valencia, Spain. The festival celebrates St. Joseph, as well as the arrival of spring, with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires. On the last day of the five-day festival, ninots across the city are set on fire.

	March 16, 2012 The Daily Frame Helen Astaire works on a butterfly at the Affordable Art Fair in London on Thursday.

	March 15, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks through "Out of Sync," an art installation on a grass meadow at Somerset House in London. Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere hand crafted 10,000 clay flowers for the installation, which is open to the public through April 27.

	March 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A member of staff at the Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, views a painting in the Royal Collection on Tuesday. The exhibition celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and showcases the tastes of monarchs and other members of the royal family.

	March 9, 2012 News Wrap: Greece Secures Record Debt Writedown In other news Friday, Greece's government said nearly 84 percent of its private-sector creditors agreed to accept new Greek bonds worth less than half the old ones, making it the biggest debt writedown in history. In Syria, activists reported that at least 54 people were killed in nationwide violence.

	March 9, 2012 Conversation: Eavan Boland Jeffrey Brown talks to Irish poet Eavan Boland.

	March 9, 2012 In Russia, Case of Khodorkovsky Drawing Comparisons to Sakharov One of Russia's richest men, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been in prison for nearly a decade for fraud and tax evasion. On Monday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed the prosecutor general to review his case, raising a comparison to the case of one of Russia's best known human rights activists, Andrei Sakharov.

	March 8, 2012 News Wrap: World Powers Stress Diplomacy in Iran In other news Thursday, the U.S., China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany urged Iran to let U.N. inspectors into its nuclear sites as promised, stressing that diplomacy was crucial to resolving tensions. Also, a large number of private investors agreed to help Greece slash $140 billion from its debt.

	March 5, 2012 What Putin's Latest Win Means for Russia With a 64 percent landslide, Vladimir Putin claimed his third term as Russia's president Sunday, prompting celebrations, protests and accusations of voting fraud. Protesters vowed to continue demonstrating until their demands for democracy are met. Margaret Warner reports from Moscow on Russia's varying reactions to the vote.

	March 5, 2012 Putin Wins Third Term as Russia's President in Disputed Election Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won a six-year presidential term on Sunday, as the opposition and international monitors described the election as flawed. "We won! Glory to Russia," he told a cheering throng outside the Kremlin.

	March 4, 2012 Despite Allegations of Fraud, Russia's Voters Demand To Be Counted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election, despite allegations of fraud from the opposition. Margaret Warner, who has been reporting all week from Russia, describes the sights, sounds ... and tastes of election day.

	March 2, 2012 Despite Strengthening Opposition, Putin Favored to Claim Presidency Again Though term limits forced him to cede the post four years ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday said he's confident he'll once again be elected president in Sunday's vote and called massive protests by opposition groups "a good experience for Russia." Margaret Warner reports from Moscow.

	March 2, 2012 Turkish Ambassador: Arming Syrian Rebels 'Easier Said Than Done' Leaders of the opposition Syrian National Council met Friday with the Turkish foreign minister in Istanbul to call for opening a military bureau in Turkey to coordinate the resistance in Syria. Ray Suarez and Namik Tan, Turkey's ambassador to the United States, discuss Turkey's toughening stance against its longtime ally.

	March 2, 2012 On Sunday: Web Coverage of Russia's Presidential Election Russians vote Sunday in a presidential election that many expect will bring Vladimir Putin back into office. Protesters, angry at the way they say parliamentary elections in December squeezed out opposition candidates, have vowed to continue demanding reforms and a new vote.

	March 2, 2012 The Daily Frame A man walks by graffiti of Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday. Photo by Andrey Smirnov /AFP /Getty Images.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 29, 2012 News Corp.'s Succession 'in Flux' as James Murdoch Resigns Under pressure from the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed his tabloid News of the World last summer, James Murdoch -- the youngest son of Rupert Murdoch -- stepped down as executive chairman of News International. Gwen Ifill discusses the ongoing fallout with Ned Temko of The Observer in London.

	Feb. 29, 2012 Russian Dissident Blogger Navalny: 'Ghosts of Gadhafi Are Haunting' Putin Ahead of Sunday's presidential election, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused his enemies of planning dirty tricks, including ballot stuffing and even murder, in an attempt to mar the vote's outcome. Reporting in Moscow, Margaret Warner spoke with Russia's Alexei Navalny, a leading reformer and anti-corruption blogger.

	Feb. 29, 2012 Influential Russian Blogger: Opposition 'Will Not Recognize...Election Results' MOSCOW \| Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, who has emerged as one of the most potent new figures opposing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid to regain the presidency, said he and many others in the opposition will not accept the results of Sunday's election as legitimate.

	Feb. 27, 2012 In Russia, 'No Romantic Notion of Revolution' Before Election Russian protesters formed a human chain in Moscow Sunday to register their opposition toward Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his bid to become president again. Margaret Warner reports on the upcoming election as reports emerge of an alleged assassination plot and pressure mounts on Russia to change its policy toward Syria.

	Feb. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame Employees of the Tate Modern in London stand next to "Tutto," an embroidery work by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti. The museum will present an exhibition of Boetti's work from Tuesday to May 27, 2012.

	Feb. 27, 2012 Russia Dispatch: Hand-in-Hand Against Putin's Presidency Bid Snow fell steadily all day, large fat flakes and light airy ones, but that didn't deter the thousands of Russians who lined Moscow's 10-mile inner "Garden Ring" road Sunday to protest Prime Minister Vladmir Putin's bid to return to the presidency.

	Feb. 23, 2012 The Daily Frame Men mourn the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent by burying a symbolic sardine during the Burial of the Sardine (El Entierro de la Sardina) festival Wednesday in Madrid.

	Feb. 22, 2012 News Wrap: U.N. Team Says Iran Trip Yielded Little Nuclear Knowledge In other news Wednesday, a team from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency ended a two-day mission to Iran, but the delegation's head said talks failed to yield any significant progress. Also, nearly 50 people were killed in Argentina when a commuter train crashed at a Buenos Aires station.

	Feb. 21, 2012 After Second Bailout, Is Greece Still Likely to Default? Eurozone finance ministers on Tuesday granted Greece its second bailout, a $172 billion package aimed at helping the country avoid default. Jeffrey Brown discusses the longer-term concerns of austerity measures and growth with Georgetown University's Scheherazade Rehman and Joao Vale de Almeida, the EU's ambassador to the U.S.

	Feb. 21, 2012 With Greece Bailout Comes Relief, Lingering Doubts Struggling to avoid even worse damage from its debt crisis, Greece was granted another EU bailout Tuesday, a $172 billion package aimed at helping the country avoid default. Richard Edgar of Independent Television News reports on the eurozone finance ministers' decision amid longer-term anxieties.

	Feb. 21, 2012 The Daily Frame A woman walks past graffiti in Athens depicting a young girl trying to reach stars from the European Union flag. European officials agreed Tuesday to give Greece a second massive bailout in exchange for harsh austerity measures.

	Feb. 20, 2012 News Wrap: Eurozone Ministers Move Closer to Granting Greece Next Bailout In other news Monday, Eurozone finance ministers decided at a meeting in Brussels that Greece must implement more austerity measures before they approve a $171 billion bailout package to avoid defaulting on its debts. Also, U.N. inspectors began a two-day visit to Iran to press for information on Tehran's nuclear program.

	Feb. 20, 2012 The Daily Frame Carnival performers at the Rosenmontag parade Monday in Mainz, Germany.

	Feb. 17, 2012 What Do 'Mama's Boys' Have to Do With the Euro Debt Crisis? This isn't just a candidate for chart of the day or even chart of the week. Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital and former co-head of credit trading at Deutsche Bank, presented this at a conference on the Eurocrisis, as reported on the Business Insider website.

	Feb. 15, 2012 Author Beppe Severgnini on What Makes Italians Tick During Crisis On our recent foray to Germany and Italy to explore the political and social dimensions of the European debt crisis, one person we felt we had to see to understand the Italian and European mindsets was Beppe Severgnini, the noted Italian journalist, author and all-around cultural commentator.

	Feb. 15, 2012 The Daily Frame "Forever Franco," a sculpture by Eugenio Moreno depicting former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in a soda vending machine, is displayed Tuesday on the eve of Madrid's International Contemporary Art Fair.

	Feb. 14, 2012 The Daily Frame Light art is projected on Barcelona's city council building during a winter festival.

	Feb. 13, 2012 Greek Ambassador: 'Profound Structural Reforms' Necessary for Long-Term Recovery Protests flooded Athens over the weekend, escalating Monday in the wake of the Greek Parliament's approval of a new wave of austerity measures. Jeffrey Brown talks with Greece's ambassador to the United States, Vassilis Kaskarelis, about the protests, the bailout negotiations and the potential impact of the austerity plan.

	Feb. 13, 2012 Greece Plunges into Turmoil After Austerity Vote After a vote on austerity measures by the Greek Parliament on Sunday inched the country closer to a second bailout, violent protests erupted once again in the streets of Athens. James Mates of Independent Television News reports on lingering obstacles to a resolution of the E.U. debt crisis.

	Feb. 10, 2012 Italy: Amid Eurozone Crisis, 'Going the Greece Way' Would Be Disastrous Languishing amid the eurozone crisis, all of Italy is hurting and under pressure from international creditors to bring down its massive national debt. Margaret Warner reports from Milan on an economy so big that a default could bring about the collapse of the entire euro system.

	Feb. 10, 2012 Greece Reels as Government OKs More Austerity Measures As Greece signed off on a new round of austerity measures in exchange for another bailout, European finance ministers said the cuts may not be enough. James Mates of Independent Television News reports on the start of a two-day strike over the cuts.

	Feb. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame Children view Richard Ansdell's painting, "The Hunted Slaves," at the International Slavery Museum on Thursday in Liverpool, England.

	Feb. 9, 2012 In Bailing Out Greece, Germans Eye 'Functional, Surviving Euro' European Union finance ministers said Thursday Greece would have to make even more austerity cuts to receive bailout money, even if there is a new government. Margaret Warner reports from Germany on how citizens of the continent's richest country feel about the EU's latest debt relief package for Greece.

	Feb. 9, 2012 What Greece's Latest Cuts Mean for Workers, EU Greek political leaders reached a much-anticipated agreement Thursday on yet another round of austerity cuts. Jeffrey Brown and John Psaropolous of the blog The New Athenian discuss implications for Greeks, the country's economy and its relationship with the continent.

	Feb. 9, 2012 Austerity Plan Might Ease Greece Out of its 2-Year Debt Crisis After weeks of negotiations, Greece's political leaders wrapped up a controversial agreement Thursday on yet another round of austerity measures. Though the deal received some praise, Germany said it fell short while workers in Greece took to the streets to protest more spending cuts. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	Feb. 8, 2012 Amid Eurozone Crisis, How Germany Became Europe's Richest Country As European debt crisis negotiations approach the 11th hour on yet another bailout for Greece, Margaret Warner reports on some of the people behind the economic success of Germany -- Europe's richest country.

	Feb. 8, 2012 The Daily Frame Stormtroopers in London promote Friday's release of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 3D."

	Feb. 7, 2012 Italy's Premier Mario Monti: Time to Focus on Growth in Europe In an interview with Margaret Warner in Rome, Italy's Premier Mario Monti said now is the time to start focusing on "how collectively we can achieve more growth in Europe." Monti also said "old phantoms" of resentment between the North and South of Europe had reemerged in light of the euro zone crisis.

	Feb. 7, 2012 Protests in Greece Take Aim at Europe's Demands for More Cuts Protesters in Greece took to the streets again Tuesday, expressing anger over Europe's demands for more spending cuts and tax increases. James Mates of Independent Television News reports on the unpopular new round of austerity measures then Margaret Warner sets up her interview with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.

	Feb. 7, 2012 Italian Prime Minister: Eurozone Crisis Revives 'Prejudices' in Europe Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Tuesday that the eurozone crisis has brought up "old phantoms about prejudices between" North and South Europe.

	Feb. 7, 2012 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at "Haran II" by Frank Stella, which is part of the exhibition, "Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945-1980," at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The exhibition, running through May 6, showcases more than 60 works produced after World War II from the Guggenheim museum's permanent collection.

	Feb. 4, 2012 Greece's Moment of Truth The Greek government declared Saturday that it had reached partial agreement with its euro area creditors on a $170 billion bailout package. But a gulf of differences remains, with only a day of talks to go.

	Feb. 3, 2012 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Italian Prime Minister on the Financial Crisis As European countries continue to struggle with how to resolve the region's financial crisis, one of the key voices in that effort is set to make an appearance on Tuesday's NewsHour.

	Feb. 3, 2012 The Daily Frame Brazilian dancer Edson Barbosa warms up for her performance at the Prix de Lausanne 40th International Ballet Competition in Lausanne, Switzerland.

	Feb. 2, 2012 The Daily Frame Officials at Spain's Prado Museum said Wednesday that a "Mona Lisa" copy owned by the museum was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci's pupils alongside da Vinci himself as he created the original that now hangs in the Louvre.

	Feb. 1, 2012 The Daily Frame A barista uses a stencil and cinnamon and cocoa powder to create a portrait of presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov at a coffeehouse in Moscow.



	JANUARY Jan. 31, 2012 Most EU Members Back 'Fiscal Pact' to Ensure Discipline, Punish Violators As European Union member states attempt to tackle their financial woes with a fiscal discipline deal, Gwen Ifill discusses the details with Margaret Warner, reporting from Stuttgart, Germany.

	Jan. 31, 2012 News Wrap: Sub-Zero Cold Wave Crosses Central, Eastern Europe In other news Tuesday, the death toll neared 60 in a sub-zero cold wave across Central and Eastern Europe as temperatures dropped to -17 degrees Fahrenheit in some places. Also, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug called Kalydeco for use by 1,200 patients with a rare form of cystic fibrosis.

	Jan. 31, 2012 The Daily Frame David Shrigley's taxidermied Jack Russell terrier, titled "I'm Dead," is on display Tuesday at a new exhibition of the artist's work, called "Brain Activity," at the Hayward Gallery in London.

	Jan. 30, 2012 At EU Summit, a New Focus on Growth, Not Just Austerity Margaret Warner speaks with Jeffrey Brown from the European Union summit in Brussels, where there's a new emphasis on the need for growth, not just austerity measures, to keep the continent from facing another recession.

	Jan. 30, 2012 Protests Against Austerity Measures Greet EU Members in Brussels In their 17th meeting in two years, leaders of 27 member states of the European Union reconvened in hopes of taming an economic crisis that threatens to entangle the continent in another recession. Margaret Warner reports from Belgium's capital on disagreement over austerity measures, both on the street and in the summit.

	Jan. 30, 2012 A Bronx Cheer in Brussels for EU Austerity As the 27 European Union leaders gather here for a summit on the continent's debt crisis, the city is a snarl of blocked roadways, stalled trains and buses, and many shuttered schools and shops.

	Jan. 27, 2012 World Remembers Holocaust 67 Years After Auschwitz Freed On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz -- a sprawling complex containing 48 labor and extermination camps. In 2005, the U.N. Security Council designated Jan. 27 an international day of remembering the Holocaust's millions of victims. View some of the events and memorials in our slide show.

	Jan. 27, 2012 The Daily Frame "Armada," an installation by Japanese artist Jacob Hashimoto is displayed at Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy, on Thursday.

	Jan. 27, 2012 Holocaust Remembrances and Memorials Candle lightings and memorial visits marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2012. That day in 1945 Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz labor and extermination complex.

	Jan. 26, 2012 Could Greece Fire Off a Global Credit Freeze? These days, the fear is that institutions that sold insurance on Greek debt -- Greek credit default swaps -- will be obliged to pay up if Greece were to officially default. And that they won't be able to meet that obligation, leading to global credit freeze 2.0.

	Jan. 26, 2012 The Daily Frame A model wears a hand-embroidered cape made from the silk of the golden orb spider in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Medieval and Renaissance Gallery in London. The cape is one of two golden spider silk textiles that exist in the world. It was made in Madagascar over a period of eight years from the silk of 1.2 million spiders.

	Jan. 24, 2012 What's Uniting Russia's Revolutionaries? Six weeks before a presidential election in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is off and running, attempting a return to another presidential stint -- despite growing anti-Putin demonstrations across the country. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports on the efforts of three revolutionary organizations.

	Jan. 24, 2012 How Are Microwave Popcorn, Your Child's Immune System Connected? A new study found that the perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in products are associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children. It is the first study to document how PFCs can adversely affect vaccine response. These pollutants can be transferred to children prenatally and postnatally from environmental exposure.

	Jan. 24, 2012 The Daily Frame A statue of the Madonna recovered by firefighters inside the chapel of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is stored off the Tuscan island of Giglio last week.

	Jan. 20, 2012 Airman, Actors Seek to Inspire Youth with 'Red Tails' "Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!"

	Jan. 18, 2012 The Daily Frame A model displays an outfit by Austrian designer Rebekka Ruetz during Wednesday's shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin.

	Jan. 17, 2012 Jolie Tackles Bosnian War in Directorial Debut Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie sat down with Jeffrey Brown to discuss, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," her directorial debut. Jolie admits the film, which takes an unflinching look at the mass rape and ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian War in the 1990s, is "a hard movie to watch, but it is intentionally so."

	Jan. 17, 2012 More Bodies Discovered Aboard Capsized Cruise Ship The chances of finding survivors aboard a capsized cruise liner began fading Tuesday, as the Italian navy blasted into the ship's hull and the death count climbed to 11. Martin Geissler of Independent Television News has the latest on the continuing search efforts and the potential evidence building against the ship's captain.

	Jan. 16, 2012 What Does Italy's Sinking Ship Mean for the Cruise Industry? At least six people died after a cruise ship capsized off the coast of Italy Friday. Ray Suarez discusses some of the legal and safety issues stemming from the disaster with longtime travel writer Rudy Maxa, currently the host of "Rudy Maxa's World" on PBS, and Richard Alsina, a lawyer specializing in maritime law.

	Jan. 16, 2012 Death Toll, Environmental Worries Mount in Wake of Italian Cruise Disaster Search teams in Italy wrestled rough seas Monday as they looked for survivors and bodies after a huge cruise liner vessel ran aground and tipped over Friday. Alex Thomson of Independent Television News reports on the human accident that now threatens to become an environmental problem.

	Jan. 13, 2012 The Daily Frame A scene from the dance piece "Survivor" at London's Barbican Theatre on Wednesday.

	Jan. 10, 2012 Occupy Budapest: Protests Challenge Power Grab by the 'Viktator' in Hungary As huge protests choke downtown Budapest, organizers say a Hungarian spring is underway.

	Jan. 10, 2012 The Daily Frame The Centre Pompidou-Metz is presenting "Bivouac," the first major exhibition in France dedicated to the work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. The exhibition runs through July 30.

	Jan. 4, 2012 Under the Sea Near Antarctica, 'a Riot of Life' Discovered in Super-Heated Water Scientists discovered many new species on the floor of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica -- something they're describing as a "riot of life." Jeffrey Brown speaks with former oceanographer Mark Schrope about the newest known species of sea life found around hydrothermal vents.

	Jan. 3, 2012 Biggest Story of 2011: Arab Spring or Fall of Democratic Stability? As the weighty foreign policy journals weigh in with their year-end editions, there's a surprising result: far less about the implications of the Arab Spring and more about the economic and political threats to the liberal democratic order that was created in the wake of World War II.