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The Dalai Lama

Emotional Awareness

What do the Dalai Lama and Dr Paul Ekman, a leading brain scientist, have in common? Tania Ketenjian investigates for Reporting Religion.
A German banker holds his head in front of a graph of falling markets.

EU finance future

Europe’s leaders unveil a plan that they hope will start to rejuvenate the region’s financial systems. Will it work?

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Markets rally after crisis talks

Talking America

The BBC goes coast to coast meeting the people who decide the election that will affect the world

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  • Global Arts and Entertainment

    An interview with writer Paul Theroux and the verdict on new Italian mob drama Gomorra.

  • World Football

    The role of the Chinese Government in its country's football affairs as FIFA are urged to help the ailing football nation.

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  • I am going ahead with my planned marriage to my Brazilian fiancee, even though the economy appears to be bad. We will appreciate our lives more after surviving this crisis as a family.

    George F Naryshkin, Stuart