A week after a powerful earthquake hit northern Italy, Parmesan farmers are feeling the economic repercussions.

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VIDEO: Cheese producers hit by Italy quake

The social unrest, economic gloom and austerity in Europe today mirrors the fall of the Roman Empire, says the historian Michael Wood.

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The time Britain slid into chaos

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to attend the World Economic Forum in Bangkok next week, leaving Burma for the first time in 24 years.

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Suu Kyi to make Thai forum visit

Photographing a time of economic change

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Let this be a sign

As the presidential campaign veers off onto the Bain Capital ramp, the predictable arguments ensue: Is the turn simply a political attack meant to distract from bad economic news? (So says Mitt Romney). Or is it an important, valid argument at the heart of the contest? (So says President Barack Obama.)

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Borger: Obama’s attacks backfiring?

Signals economic, housing-market recovery.

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U.S. Sees Home Sales Jump

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development cut its growth forecast for the 17-nation zone and said Europe risked creating a cycle of decline.

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Euro Watch: O.E.C.D. Sees Euro-Zone Crisis Hurting World Recovery

The Brazilian government unveils a new stimulus package to boost manufacturing, particularly in the key car sector, to try to boost economic growth.

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Brazil cuts tax amid growth doubt

The IMF says the UK’s continuing economic weakness means authorities should consider more Quantitative Easing and even cutting rates.

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IMF tells UK to consider rate cut

A weak eurozone is the single biggest threat to the global economy, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Marks and Spencer reports a fall in annual profits in what the retailer describes as a tough economic environment.

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M&S posts fall in annual profits

President Vladimir V. Putin has announced a new Cabinet, warning that it will have to fulfill its duties in a difficult global economic climate.

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Putin Names New Cabinet

KOLKATA, India — She spent her life fighting communists but is the biggest obstacle to economic liberalization in India today. She is the leader of a small regional party but wields more power than the prime minister. Read full article > >

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Mamata Banerjee personifies populist force in Indian politics

ATHENS — Homeward bound after the Trojan War, Odysseus of Greek myth had to pick a path through seas harboring a monster with six heads and a whirlpool that digested ships whole. Now, whether modern Greece exits the euro — potentially triggering global economic turmoil in the process — depends on the tough choices of Ivi Moreti and her 11 million countrymen. Read full article > >

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World on their shoulders, Greeks face epic choice

MINORITIES NOW account for more than half the babies born in America , a milestone in the path toward what demographers forecast will be an overall majority-minority population in 30 years. That watershed bit of data from the Census Bureau, reported this week, was seized on by the multicultural left, which reads it as a triumph of demographic inevitability, and the Chicken Little right, which sees it as a portent of socioeconomic disaster. In fact, it is cause for neither elation nor alarm but for a rational response from policymakers, who have so far tended to pretend nothing is happening. They’re wrong. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: America’s changing demographics