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...That surely irks the E.U., which is limited in the amount of help - or punishment - it can impose on Greece. Allowing the country to default, or to approach to the International Monetary Fund for emergency funds, would deal a huge blow to the credibility of the 11-year-old euro zone. Whatever financial concessions it can offer, therefore, will almost certainly come with stiff conditions. Greece may have little option but to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Greece Could Be the Next Dubai | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...erotic horror film, Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf. The group has been criticized for being little more than pretty faces unqualified to hold public office. During campaigning, some newspapers dubbed them "Ozawa's princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's 67-year-old secretary general and chief election strategist. By running a slate of female neophytes - many of them unknowns and outsiders - Ozawa drew fire from some pundits who accused him of offering up unfit candidates to capitalize on voters' increasing concern over Japan's worsening economic plight and their frustration with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to Japan's 'Princesses' | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...less than $2 a day and the world's largest HIV/AIDS population continue to drag on the country. But whereas Mbeki stoked a national mood of frustration by denying such crises existed, Zuma concedes they are real and even accepts blame. "These challenges are based in reality," the 67-year-old told TIME in a rare interview. "And it's only when you admit there have been deficiencies and weaknesses that you make sense to the people, who can see them for themselves. After 15 years [in power], people are saying: Where is the delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Zuma Be What South Africa Needs? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Somalia-based al-Shabab is particularly troubling to American officials due to its active recruitment of U.S. citizens - particularly from the large Somali community in and around Minneapolis - to join its battle against Mogadishu's weak interim government. In October 2008, the first known American suicide bomber - a 26-year-old Somali-American fighting with al-Shabab - blew himself up in northern Somalia. In one of the broadest domestic terrorism investigations since Sept. 11, federal officials have charged 14 people with recruiting an estimated 20 Americans to join the radical Islamist group since late 2007. And in its most recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Shabab | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...children attend school. "Evo knows what it's like to be like us," said Ilda Condori, an indigenous voter waiting outside a polling station in the impoverished city of El Alto that adjoins the capital, La Paz, 12,000 ft. high in the Andes. Looking down at her 8-year-old daughter, Condori added, "Because of Evo, I can afford to buy this one schoolbooks and some clothes every year." (See a video about how Bolivia's opposition is losing ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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