Oct 28 Islamist Party Wins Tunisian Elections By News Desk Supporters of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party celebrate in Tunis after results came out Tuesday showing the party had taken the lead. Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images. This post was updated at 10:55 a.m. ET Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda won… Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch Will Europe's Debt Deal Calm Fears of Prolonged Recessions? European leaders reached a deal over their debt crisis at an emergency summit Thursday in Brussels. Jeffrey Brown discusses how the new agreement is expected to help solve the eurozone's problems with Joao Vale de Almeida of the Delegation of… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch World's Population Teeters on the Edge of 7 Billion: Now What? World's Population Teeters on the Edge of 7 Billion -- Now What?… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch World Population to Hit Milestone With Birth of 7 Billionth Person The world's population is expected to hit a milestone Monday with the birth of the 7 billionth person. Independent Television News' Lawrence McGinty reports on what this means for people and the planet. Continue watching
Oct 27 Slide Show: Life in Nicaragua, Surviving on Less than $2 a Day By Talea Miller The NewsHour's global health unit is in Nicaragua this week reporting on the upcoming presidential election and efforts to provide a new life-saving vaccine to infants. Both of these stories are playing out against a back drop of intense… Continue reading
Oct 27 World Population Poised to Hit 7 Billion. What Challenges Lie Ahead? By Larisa Epatko On Monday, a baby will be born somewhere and demographers will proclaim that the world's population has reached 7 billion. That's good news and bad news, according to a United Nations Population Fund report released Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 27 European Leaders Reach Debt Deal, Greek Debtholders Take 50% Loss By News Desk Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks Thursday at a press conference after a eurozone summit at EU headquarters in Brussels. Photo by Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images. At an emergency summit in Brussels, European leaders reached a debt crisis deal in which… Continue reading
Oct 26 Market Deal Brings Life-Saving Vaccine to Poor Countries By Ray Suarez A young child receives the new pneumococcal vaccine in Nicaragua. Any parent knows the scene very well: a practitioner tears open the packaging on a new syringe, pierces the top of a medicine bottle and draws just the right amount… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch In EU Efforts to Fix Debt Crisis, Divisions Remain and Questions Unanswered The German Parliament passed a measure to boost a bailout fund for the eurozone as leaders arrived in Brussels for an emergency European Union summit. Margret Warner discusses what EU leaders hope to accomplish at the summit with Zanny Minton… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch European Leaders Seek Solutions to Debt Crisis at EU Summit European Union leaders gathered Wednesday in Brussels in hopes of reaching a deal to bolster Eurozone relief funds and contain Greece's debt crisis. Laura Kuenssberg of Independent Television News reports from Brussels. Continue watching