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Greek Parents Losing Children to Poverty

By The World ⋅ January 6, 2012 ⋅ One comment ⋅ Transcript

The Greek economic crisis has left many people jobless and with very little to survive on.

Charities in Greece say parents are increasingly asking the groups to take in their children because they are too poor to raise them.

Cartoon: NASA’s Predictions for 2012

By Carol Hills ⋅ January 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

NASA held a press conference last month to try to debunk the latest doomsday scenarios for Earth in 2012 but Chinese cartoonist Luojie thinks the space agency may have forgotten one thing.

Europe’s Continuing Debt Crisis

By The World ⋅ December 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

The European debt crisis has engulfed the 17 countries that use the euro and is already having an impact on this side of the Atlantic.

George Papandreou Defends the Decisions that Drove him from Power

By The World ⋅ December 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (Photo: BBC)

Former prime minister George Papandreou stepped down in November – a casualty of the economic crisis that has battered Greece and much of the rest of Europe.

London Bankers Welcome End Of Tough Year

By Laura Lynch ⋅ December 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

London's Bank Subway Station (Photo: Felipe Ortega/Flickr)

There’s one group of people in London who will probably be happier than most to see the end of 2011. It’s the bankers, the men and women who work in the financial district known as The City.

Slideshow: Saving the Euro

By Carol Hills ⋅ December 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

The euro is sick, disabled, sliding, a sinking ship… name your metaphor, you’ll probably see it among these cartoons. Plus, Europe’s most unlikely power couple: Angela and Nicolas.

Eurozone Debt Fears Shift To Spain

By Gerry Hadden ⋅ November 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Banco de España in Madrid (Photo: Luis Garcia/Wiki Commons)

Spanish voters elect a new government this Sunday. The current Spanish prime minister is almost certain to lose his job as the country becomes the next target of euro debt concerns after Greece and Italy.

Berlusconi Takes Parting Shots

By The World ⋅ November 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi

Outgoing Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi calls on the European Central Bank to support the euro.

Okay, So Who’s Paying?

By Carol Hills ⋅ November 8, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Canadian Cam Cardow asks the question that’s vexing the eurozone at the moment.

The Snowflake That Started an Avalanche

By Clark Boyd ⋅ October 19, 2011 ⋅ One comment ⋅ Transcript

Athens sanitation workers have been strike for weeks (Photo: Clark Boyd)

“Greece is in a free fall,” Yanis Varoufakis says to me as we sit down for an interview at his apartment in Athens, and it sets the tone of the half-hour conversation that follows [...]