Nov 11 'One Day on Earth' Film Project Builds Worldwide Virtual Community By Larisa Epatko Friday is 11/11/11, and the minds behind the documentary and online video archive known as "One Day on Earth" are hoping thousands of people around the world will film a moment in their lives this day. Continue reading
Nov 11 Italy Passes Austerity Bill, New Greek PM Names Cabinet Newly appointed prime minister Lucas Papademos leaves the Greek Presidential palace in Athens on November 10, 2011. Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images. Italy's senate passed a bill to usher in a series of austerity measures in an attempt to… Continue reading
Nov 10 At APEC Summit, Blending Economic Strategy and Ensemble By Larisa Epatko A week after Europe's economic woes dominated the G20 summit in France, a different collection of world leaders meet in Hawaii, where they hope to strengthen ties among Asia and the Pacific region's fast-growing markets, from China to Chile. Continue reading
Nov 10 APEC Attire Through the Years By Larisa Epatko One of the traditions of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is a group photo in which world leaders don matching outfits from ponchos to pastel silk jackets. We display some of them here. Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch Italy's Debt Dilemma: Too Big to Fail and Too Big to Rescue? Jeffrey Brown discusses Italy's rapidly escalating debt crisis and the implications for the rest of the Eurozone with Il Sole's Mario Calvo-Platero and Bloomberg-BusinessWeek's Roben Farzad. Continue watching
Nov 09 Liberian President Poised to Win Re-election in Tense Runoff By Larisa Epatko Many Liberians and their friends in the West had hoped the country, once plagued by civil war, was continuing its march to democracy. But the presidential run-off election Tuesday has dashed some of those hopes as violence erupted and the… Continue reading
Nov 09 Somali Refugees Seek 'New Normal' in Ethiopian Camp Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other… Continue reading
Nov 09 Italy's Debt Rate Hits Record 7% Despite Word of Berlusconi Resignation By News Desk Roberto Maroni, Italy's interior minister, left, speaks with Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, during a voting session on last year's budget report inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images. One… Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch Journalist Goes Undercover to Report on Syrian Dissidents The Syrian government has stepped up its deadly crackdown on dissidents, only a week after agreeing to negotiate with them. Margret Warner discusses the violence with journalist Ramita Navai, who went undercover to embed with some of Syria's most-wanted dissidents. Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch Is Iran Capable of Developing Nuclear Weapons? The International Atomic Energy Agency has been trying for years to monitor the Iranian program and determine if it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Ray Suarez discusses the agency's latest report with former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright. Continue watching