Biodun@bbcnews.com

mediabistro.com tweets:

• Just shot an exciting new project with @laureltouby involving startups, investors, and hot tubs — @mbstartups
• How journalist A.J. Jacobs (@myhealthsins) is becoming the healthiest person in the world: http://mbist.ro/gMXVUQ —@GalleyCat
• Salahis spice up afternoon at Alexandria spa.http://mbist.ro/hfrGH2 — @FishbowlDC
• New Congress, New Twitter: Your Guide to 112th Twitter Handles http://mbist.ro/h1lK2o — @AllTwtr
• The Atlantic posts first profit in decades. Go buy them a beer or seven.http://mbist.ro/eDo67E — @FishbowlNY

Follow mbtweets on Twitter @mbtweetfeed

Morning Media Newsfeed Needs You! Send us your story tips, job changes, insider gossip, and all that other good stuff: tips@mediabistro.com

More than 160,000 people in the media business read this email every day. To learn aboutadvertising or other creative partnerships, contact Dave Arganbright at (212) 547-7931 orvia email.

You are receiving this email at biginla@yahoo.com because you subscribed at mediabistro.com for our Morning Media Newsfeed service. Please add mailer@email.mediabistro.com to your Address Book to ensure delivery of this email (how do I do this?).
Stop Receiving this Email | Start Receiving this Email | Send Feedback

mediabistro.com
475 Park Avenue South | New York | NY | 10016
mediabistro.com is a division of WebMediaBrands Inc.

6 January 2011 Last updated at 18:13 ET

Ecowas soldiers training in Senegal in 2007

Regional body Ecowas has threatened to remove Laurent Gbagbo by force

Ivory Coast crisis

Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo is expelling the British and Canadian ambassadors, a statement on state television has said.

It said the action was being taken as a reciprocal measure. The UK said it did not accept that the move was valid.

Mr Gbagbo has refused to step down despite rival Alassane Ouattara gaining international recognition as November's presidential election winner.

Mr Ouattara has urged West African special forces to remove Mr Gbagbo.

The West African regional body Ecowas has threatened to force Mr Gbagbo out but has said it wants to try mediation efforts first.

Mr Gbagbo still has the public backing of the army and control of state media.

The UK and Canada are among the nations who have expelled ambassadors appointed by Mr Gbagbo in order to replace them with diplomats chose by Mr Outtara.

The BBC's John James, in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, says the expulsions are largely symbolic.

The UK ambassador, who acts as envoy for several countries in the region, is based in neighbouring Ghana, and the Canadian embassy will still be able to carry out its normal functions, our correspondent says.

Blockade

The state television statement said the UK and Canadian envoys were being expelled as their countries no longer recognised Mr Gbagbo's ambassadors.

"Through the application of the principle of reciprocity governing diplomatic relations, the ministry informs Madame Marie Isabelle Massip that her accreditation as Canadian ambassador in Ivory Coast is ended.

Click to play

Alassane Ouattara: "The day Laurent Gbagbo leaves everyone will be happy"

"For the same reasons, the Foreign Ministry informs ambassador Nicholas James Westcott that his accreditation as United Kingdom and Northern Ireland ambassador is also ended."

The UK Foreign Office responded by saying: "The British government has recognised Mr Alassane Ouattara as the democratically elected president of Cote D'Ivoire.

"It recognises the legitimacy of statements made by, or on behalf of, his government. The British government does not accept the validity of statements made by others."

The UK withdrew recognition of Mr Gbagbo's envoy on 31 December and Canada did the same on 29 December. France has said it will recognise Mr Ouattara's envoy.

The UN has also recognised Mr Ouattara's appointee, Youssoufou Bamba, as Ivory Coast ambassador to the UN.

Separately on Thursday, the US announced it had frozen the assets of Mr Gbagbo, his wife and three aides.

It said it was barring US citizens from financial dealings with Mr Gbagbo.

'Key buildings'

Meanwhile, Ecowas has already started drawing up plans for a regional intervention force.

Our correspondent says it is not clear how ready the countries in the region are to contribute troops to an intervention that could potentially face a regular army numbering 18,000 men.

Deadly clashes in Ivory Coast

However, Mr Ouattara, who has many supporters in northern Ivory Coast, said it was just a question of removing Mr Gbagbo from power and taking control of key buildings like the presidential palace.

"Legitimate force doesn't mean a force against Ivorians," Mr Ouattara told reporters on Thursday, AFP news agency reports.

"It's a force to remove Laurent Gbagbo and that's been done elsewhere, in Africa and in Latin America, there are non-violent special operations which allow simply to take the unwanted person and take him elsewhere."

However, Ecowas does not have the sophisticated equipment and personnel needed for a special forces operation, our correspondent says.

The former colonial power France, which has 900 soldiers on the ground, says it will not intervene.

There are an estimated 10,000 UN troops in Ivory Coast - and the mission has sent a request to the UN Security Council for an extra 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers.

Mr Ouattara remains behind a blockade at a hotel in Abidjan, protected by UN peacekeepers and New Forces former rebels who control the north of the country.

November's election was intended to reunify the country, which has been divided since a 2002 conflict.

Mr Ouattara was initially proclaimed the winner by the country's election commission - a verdict backed by the UN, which helped organise the poll.

But the country's Constitutional Council, headed by an ally of Mr Gbagbo, later ruled that he had won, citing voting irregularities in the north.

The 112th Congress convenes

Jan 6th 2011 | WASHINGTON, DC | from PRINT EDITION

by Biodun Iginla, BBC News and the Economist

THE first act of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, which took control of the chamber this week after four years of Democratic rule, was to order the constitution to be read aloud on the House floor. This crash course in civics was intended chiefly as a gesture of fealty to the tea-party activists, or “constitutional conservatives”, who helped propel the Republicans to power in November’s election. But the reading also serves as a stark reminder of the many celebrated “checks and balances” built into America’s political system, and thus how hard it will be for the new regime to get anything done.

Take another of the Republicans’ first acts: the scheduling of a vote on January 12th to repeal the health-care reforms passed by the previous, Democrat-controlled Congress. The measure is all but certain to pass, given the Republicans’ healthy majority of 242-193, and may even attract the votes of a few Democrats. But it is also all but certain to run aground in the Senate, which remains tilted 53-47 in the Democrats’ favour. A further obstacle to the ambitions of the House Republicans is the president’s power to veto any bill he dislikes. As their recent primer on the constitution will have reminded them, it takes a two-thirds vote of both chambers—something far beyond the Republicans’ reach—to overturn a presidential veto.

Thus most of the measures with which the Republicans are marking their ascendancy are symbolic. In another sop to the tea-partiers, they have drawn up new rules requiring every bill to specify the precise passage of the constitution that empowers Congress to act on the matter at hand. In a jab at the unions, they have changed the name of what used to be the Committee on Education and Labour to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. And to embarrass the president, Darrell Issa, the new chairman of the Committee on Oversight, has announced no fewer than six investigations he plans to conduct, into suspected incompetence at various government agencies and the like.

In a show of their determination to cut spending, the Republicans plan to vote in their first week to trim the House’s own budget by 5%. They have also changed House rules to ensure that all increases in spending are offset by commensurate cuts, rather than increases in tax. In fact, it is in fiscal matters that the Republicans will have the most leverage. Their support will be needed in the coming months both to pass a budget and to raise the legal limit on America’s debt. The stakes are high: failure to agree on the former would prompt the government to suspend all but its most basic functions; neglecting the latter would entail defaulting on America’s debts.

Republican leaders say they want to avoid any such cataclysms, but are also insisting on cuts. Paul Ryan, the new chairman of the House Budget Committee, maintains that he will pare back non-security spending in what remains of the current fiscal year to the level of 2008. That would mean a cut of roughly 20% or about $50 billion, a drop in the ocean. That is broadly consistent with the Republicans’ pre-election promises, but is considered far too severe by the Democrats in the Senate, the president and milder Republicans.

By the same token, many of the Republicans’ fiercest deficit hawks say they will not allow the debt ceiling to be raised unless they secure swingeing budget cuts. The Republican leadership appear worried that an unseemly zeal to slash spending and precipitate a melodramatic showdown with the Democrats would alienate moderate voters at the general election next year. But they also tend to bow to the zealots in the party who agitate feverishly—and often successfully—to unseat in the primaries anyone without a similar gleam in their eyes. Just how these impasses will be resolved, and with what amount of brinkmanship, is anyone’s guess.

Barack Obama, for one, seems to assume that the Republicans will indulge in a spell of futile pandering to their base before compromising on the budget and perhaps a few other matters. “That’s what happens in Washington,” he said breezily this week, on his way back from a holiday in Hawaii. Some observers see scope for bipartisanship on trade deals or an overhaul of immigration laws, although that would depend, presumably, on how poisonous the negotiations over the budget become.

A good indicator of Congress’s likely descent into bickering and stalemate is the sudden interest in both chambers in the rules of procedure. John Boehner, the new speaker of the House, has resorted to a procedural gimmick to try to impose spending cuts until a new budget is passed. He has also instituted new rules intended to rein in the deficit, but has exempted from them some of the Republicans’ most cherished but expensive goals, such as further extending the temporary tax cuts agreed with the Democrats last month.

In the Senate, meanwhile, Democrats are threatening to make it harder for the Republican minority to obstruct the will of the majority. As soon as the chamber convened on January 5th, Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, put forward a motion to change the rules of the filibuster, whereby 41 of the 100 senators can stymie almost any measure. Normally, such a change would require the approval of two-thirds of senators. But on one interpretation of procedure the rules can be changed by a simple majority of senators at the beginning of a new Congress.

Republican senators complain that the Democrats, having lost the election, are now trying to subvert its result. Somewhat contradictorily, they are decrying the attack on the Senate’s traditions even as they threaten similar acts of vengeance should they win control of the chamber at the next election. Resorting to yet another procedural ruse, Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority, has deferred the matter for a few weeks in the hope of striking some sort of deal with the Republicans. Even if the Democrats in the Senate get their way, however, they will be just as constrained by America’s newly divided government as the Republicans.

from PRINT EDITION | United States

6 January 2011 Last updated at 05:05 ET

Click to play

by Suzanne Gould and Biodun Iginla, BBC News. The BBC's Suzanne Gould has been with this story from the beginning

The BBC's Iain Mackenzie said the report is "incredibly critical" of all of the companies involved.

US Oil Spill

The companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill made decisions to cut costs and save time that contributed to the disaster, a US panel has concluded.

In a chapter of its final report, to be published next week, the presidential commission said the failures were "systemic" and likely to recur.

BP did not have adequate controls in place to ensure safety, it found.

The April blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 people and caused one of the worst oil spills in history.

The Macondo well, about a mile under the sea's surface, eventually leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging hundreds of miles of coastline before it was capped in July.

“Start Quote

The opening is worthy of any British tabloid - a picture of the inferno, a core as bright as the sun, surrounded by scarlet flames and billows of black smoke”

Mark MardellBBC North America editor

Mardell: Failure of an industry

BP said in a statement that the report, like its own investigation, had found the accident was the result of multiple causes, involving multiple companies.

But, it said, the company was working with regulators "to ensure the lessons learned from Macondo lead to improvements in operations and contractor services in deepwater drilling".

Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig, said that "the procedures being conducted in the final hours were crafted and directed by BP engineers and approved in advance by federal regulators".

Halliburton also said it acted at the direction of BP and was "fully indemnified" by the oil giant.

'Avoidable' blow-out

The new report criticises BP, which owned the Macondo well, Transocean and Halliburton, which managed the well-sealing operation, and blames inadequate government oversight and regulation.

“Start Quote

The report is likely to turn attention back to BP after several months in which the oil giant sought to turn the spotlight on its contractors”

Stephen Power and Ben CasselmanWall Street Journal

Commentators: implications of report

Specific risks the report identifies include:

A flawed design for the cement used to seal the bottom of the well
A test of that seal identified problems but was "incorrectly judged a success"
The workers' failure to recognise the first signs of the impending blow-out

"Whether purposeful or not, many of the decisions that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean made that increased the risk of the Macondo blow-out clearly saved those companies significant time (and money)," the presidential panel wrote.

"BP did not have adequate controls in place to ensure that key decisions in the months leading up to the blow-out were safe or sound from an engineering perspective."

Don Boesch, a member of the investigating commission, told the BBC's World Today programme they had identified "a whole sequence of poor decisions with unfortunate consequences when put together".

He said that not all the faults lay with BP, although the company did have overall responsibility.

"For example the lack of a proper test that was done and the cement that was used to seal the bottom of the well, that was pretty clearly the direct responsibility of Halliburton," he said.

"When the well started to blow there were decisions made by Transocean about how the material coming up the well was handled, and those were unfortunate, fateful, decisions which actually led to the explosion."

“Start Quote

Most of the mistakes and oversights at Macondo can be traced back to a single overarching failure - a failure of management ”

National Oil Spill Commission report

Excerpts: BP oil spill report

Mr Boesch said government regulators are also criticised in the report.

"What we found was very limited oversight of these various activities and decisions, that the agency responsible in the Department of the Interior was understaffed, [and] didn't have the inspectors and technical analysts who were up to the task fully."

The findings came in the final report of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, which President Barack Obama convened in May to investigate the root causes of the spill and recommend changes to industry and government policy.

Though it lacked subpoena power, the panel reviewed thousands of pages of documents, interviewed hundreds of witnesses, and in the autumn conducted a series of public hearings.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Bob Graham, former Florida governor and a co-chairman of the commission, said the findings showed the blow-out was avoidable.

"This disaster likely would not have happened had the companies involved been guided by an unrelenting commitment to safety first," he said.

Deepwater Horizon inquiries

Presidential commission (January 2011)

The oil spill was an avoidable disaster caused by a series of failures and blunders made by BP and its partners, including Transocean and Halliburton, and government departments assigned to regulate them, the panel concludes. It also warns such a disaster would likely recur because of industry complacency.

BP internal report (September 2010)

BP admits its managers on the oil rig could have prevented the catastrophe had they picked up warning signs of a breach of the cement seal at the bottom of the well, as well as unusual pressure test readings, shortly before the explosion. But it places much of the blame on Transocean and Halliburton.

Also due:

Department of Justice criminal and civil probes
Chemical Safety Board investigation into regulatory approaches to offshore industry
Joint inquiry by the US Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
National Academy of Engineering analysis
Various Congressional inquiries

Risk factors

In a months-long investigation, the panel found that mistakes and "failures to appreciate risk" compromised safeguards "until the blow-out was inevitable and, at the very end, uncontrollable".

BP's "fundamental mistake", the panel wrote, was failing to exercise proper caution over the job of sealing the well with cement.

"Based on evidence currently available, there is nothing to suggest that BP's engineering team conducted a formal, disciplined analysis of the combined impact of these risk factors on the prospects for a successful cement job," the report reads.

The conclusions run counter to industry efforts to portray the Deepwater Horizon disaster as a rare occurrence, as oil companies prod the US government to open greater areas of the US coast to oil exploration.

"The blowout was not the product of a series of aberrational decisions made by rogue industry or government officials that could not have been anticipated or expected to occur again," the report read.

"Rather, the root causes are systemic and, absent significant reform in both industry practices and government policies, might well recur."

Readers' comments

The Economist welcomes your views. Please stay on topic and be respectful of other readers.Review our comments policy.

You must be logged in to post a comment.
Please login or sign up for a free account.

Sort:

Michael Dunne wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 3:04 GMT

I wonder why Puerto Rico is forecasted to experience a decline in GPD?

Report abuse

pedrolx wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 3:29 GMT

This is according to the ever so wonderful IMF. The government here expects Portugal to grow by 0.2% , and the EU is also kinder in its forecasts. In any case, forecasts are forecasts, everyone said Portugal wouldn't grow this year, and it will present a growth of 1.5%! ;-)

Carlos Collaco wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 3:36 GMT

Forecasts are what they are.
Coming from the EIU they should deservedly get a second look despite recent misses.But then everybody else failed too...

In the lucky lot all except Qatar are impressive on their own.
Fast growth is taking place where it's needed.
Ghana and Timor-Leste are especially heartening.

The slowest ten are striking for comprising the majors of ClubMed - literally crawling - plus Portugal, Ireland and Iceland, oil-rich Venezuela, small Caribbean island-nations and oddly, Puerto Rico(!).
Greece remains in deep trouble while in the Iberian Peninsula Spain hopefully returns to feeble growth.
Portugal double dips into recession unless it manages to export its way out to narrowly avoid one.

__jaime__ wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 3:50 GMT

It is incredible how disrespectful british finance press can be. Which is forecasted growth for UK? As bad as the PIIGS one. Britain once dominated the world, as Spain did, but that is no longer true.

All PIIGS countries are performing terribly bad, as UK does. So don't think you are much different.

I'm from Spain and I'm specally critical with my country. I think it should fall and Europe should let us fall, so people will learn the lesson and changes have to done will finally implemented. But even if I was German, a country that is teaching all us how we should be, I would never use a term like that. Calling these countries "pigs" you are playing a dangerous game, a game of segregation and disrespect.

British, if we, Mediterraneans, are "pigs" remember most powerful people of your country or union of countries, as you want, are a branch of snobs that only know how to move other's people money. You have no industry left, a strong coin, thousands of people living from subsidies and very poor prospects.

Besitz Belastet wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 4:26 GMT

Does someone have evidence for that Anglo-Saxons, or the British press in particular, coined the acronym "Pigs/Piigs"? I suspect an analyst in an investment bank - who is as likely to have been Spanish or Italian as s/he was British - started using it. An over-sensitive reaction to a mildly ironic acronym is not unlike that of insecure Islamists to the Danish cartoons - what does it really matter? Spain and Greece have deep structural economic problems. Britain too has structural economic problems (but less acute). So be it.

mename2332 wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 4:32 GMT

where is singapore?

VK1961 wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 5:14 GMT

The economic measurement is, of course, distorted by the *political* circumstances. Venezuela is where it is largely because of its, ah... ~extraordinary~ way of doing business with its trade partners; Puerto Rico's state of affairs is neither here nor there, due to its ancillary status, vis-a-vis the US; some other Caribbean islands are offshore havens for American and European tax-dodgers, so I'm not entirely sure that their "growth" should be applauded; Spain is still deflating its housing bubble (as is the US), caused in turn by grave political oversight, or even encouragement-- all in the wrong direction.

So tables, charts, etc. are all fine and good, but tell a partial, and often lopsided story.

inrio wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 7:28 GMT

Puerto Rico's constant and sharp decline has a direct relationship with it's lack of sovereignty which unables this latin and caribbean country to sign agreements and international treaties, just like the rest of Latin America, with emerging economies.

hedgefundguy wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 7:45 GMT

Puerto Rico, blame it on the Captain!

Excerpts:

"Diageo’s Captain Morgan Rum’s distillery in the U.S. Virgin Islands is finally scheduled to produce rum by the end of the year."

"For many years, a third party distiller in Puerto Rico has been producing Captain Morgan Rum and selling it to Seagram’s. Diageo bought the Captain Morgan Rum label in 2001 inheriting this third party manufacturing agreement. They have looking for years how to arrange a way for them to produce their own rum under the Captain Morgan Rum label. With the manufacturing plant now being built for Diageo to produce the rum themselves, Puerto Rico will be losing millions of dollars that were coming to their territory from the rum excise tax."

http://www.caribbeanislandsrealty.com/news/captain-morgans-rum-produced-...

Regards

Mago911 wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 8:08 GMT

Just for the record; Peru´s economy grew at a 9.0 % rate in 2010.

Miguel A. Guerrero

Winston C wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 8:21 GMT

Well it is good to see that Africa is on a good economical edge and what about Ghana... this country impresses me economically but mostly politically with a solid democracy; Africa should be inspired.

JRafael wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 8:33 GMT

The reason for Puerto Rico's negative forecast is a mix of historically low employment participation rates (due to the application of United States' generous welfare programs in a weaker economy such as Puerto Rico's), government budgetary deficits, and more recently, the sudden approval (without any public hearing or input from the industries) by the Puerto Rico Government of a new tax to the pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico, which during the last two decades has been the main investor in the Island. This new tax was approved notwithstanding taxes agreements that have been previously agreed to between the government and each of the pharmaceutical companies with manufacturing operations in the Island. Once the main industries in Puerto Rico have felt betrayed by the govenrment, rumors about their departure from the Island have been growing and therefor investors have also been discouraged from investing and trusting Puerto Rico's "Republican" and Pro-Statehood government.

An Drew wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 9:22 GMT

Wow, just following the wave of nationalism in the comments section.

Fernandi wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 9:41 GMT

It is time for Puerto Rico to become a fully sovereign nation. The neo-colonial relationship of Puerto Rico with the United States established during the cold war era (1952) has brought the island nation to it's knees. With one of the highest unemployment rates in Latin America at 17% (december 2010) and one of the highest rate of homicides in the region per capita with 268 per 100.000.000, higher than Mexico in 2010.

Puerto Rico's social and financial meltdown is now visible for the whole world to see. The only solution is for Puerto Rico to become fully sovereign: to have full control of it's economy and future, right now Puerto Rico does not have full control of it's destiny and it is falling apart at its seams. This is brand new news for many but it is not news for us who watch Latin America closely and who know that Puerto Rico is the only nation in Latin America which can not sign today a free trade treaty with China, Japan or with the European Union because it is not a fully sovereign nation.

mcjpaterson wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 10:23 GMT

Why is puert Rico on your list of slowest GDP growth when you forecast over 4%
do you mean it is slowing
Surely it is not the 10th slowest grower in 2011

You are usually precise

Sorry I misread the chart
Pl ignore

mopoga wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 10:25 GMT

Are these numbers in real or nominal terms?

perspectivist wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 10:53 GMT

The Economist should clearly state whether the list includes all countries in the world or just a list of selected countries.

portoricensis wrote:

Jan 4th 2011 11:52 GMT

portoricencis
I do not think it is fair to compare the development a free nations with colonies like Puerto Rico. With recognized sovereingty Puerto Rico would be one of the most productive nations in Latin America. But it is not much you can do with both hands held by foreign political and economic interference. Puert Rico's real problem is lack of political power.

Jan 4th 2011 11:57 GMT

Interesting comments particularly concerning Puerto Rico.

Seems like it has been declining for a couple of years now.

However, it also seems to be one of the wealthier countries in Latin American (GPD per capita income: 69th position, at $ 17,100 PPP (2009 est.)); and just behind Antiqua and Barbaduda for Caribbean countries.

Literacy seems to be in teh middle ranks of major Latin American countries too - total population older than 15 that can read and right: 94.1% (Chile is something like 96.7%; Argentina,97.7%; Brazil, 90%; Columbia, 92.7%; Mexico, 92.8%; Uruguay, 97.9%; Peru, 89.6%)

Interesting that the UN Human Development site doesn't compile stats for Puerto Rico (at least I have not been able to find them)

I take it tourism may not have completely recovered too?

Morning Media Newsfeed

mediabistro.com's blogs:

mediabistro.com tweets:

BUSINESS

US Economy

AFRICA

Ivory Coast crisis

The 112th Congress convenes

Readers' comments

MIDDLE EAST

More Middle East stories

Tight security for Egypt's Copts

Readers' comments

About Daily chart

Economist blogs

US & CANADA

US Oil Spill

“Start Quote

“Start Quote

“Start Quote

Deepwater Horizon inquiries

Network News

Morning Media Newsfeed

mediabistro.com's blogs:

mediabistro.com tweets:

BUSINESS

Share this page

US Economy

More on This Story

US Economy

Latest News

Background and Analysis

Video Reports

From other news sites

Reuters UKEuro zone Q3 growth slows1 hr ago

Sydney Morning HeraldUS economy overheating? Fat chance1 hr ago

Charlotte Observer*World markets nervous ahead of key US jobs data1 hr ago

This is MoneyEconomists: QE's over; rates up post-October2 hrs ago

CNBC via MSN MoneyBernanke to face Senate skeptical of Fed policy3 hrs ago

AFRICA

Share this page

Ivory Coast crisis

More on This Story

Ivory Coast crisis

Features

Background

From other news sites

Yahoo! UK and IrelandLondon says recognises only Ouattara statements in I. Coast28 mins ago

NEWS.com.auIvory Coast expels UK, Canadian envoys48 mins ago

Times of IndiaIvory Coast expels British, Canadian envoys: Official1 hr ago

TelegraphIvory Coast expels British ambassador1 hr ago

Reuters UKIvory Coast's Ouattara offers rival safety if he leaves5 hrs ago

The 112th Congress convenes

Readers' comments

MIDDLE EAST

Share this page

Related stories

More on This Story

Related stories

From other news sites

People's Daily OnlineIran arrests American woman on espionage charges32 mins ago

Guardian.co.ukIran 'arrests' US woman on spy charges37 mins ago

Mail Online UKIran arrests American Hall Talayan after 'spy equipment found hidden in teeth'2 hrs ago

TelegraphIran says American woman detained on spy charges3 hrs ago

Daily ExpressUS woman 'held on Iran spy charges'4 hrs ago

Related Internet links

Share this page

Related items

TOPIC: Irish economy »

TOPIC: Gross Domestic Product »

TOPIC: EU economy »

TOPIC: Economies »

More related topics:

Readers' comments

About Daily chart

Economist blogs

US & CANADA

Share this page

“Start Quote

“Start Quote

“Start Quote

Deepwater Horizon inquiries

More on This Story

Key stories

Key news

Watch/Listen

From other news sites

CNNPanel spreads blame for Gulf oil spill - CNN13 mins ago

Network News