Catherine Mulbrandon, creator of the blog Visualizing Economics, illustrates the distribution of income in the US, comparing the earnings of the top one percent to those of the bottom 99.
(LinkAsia: August 12, 2011) The American debt crisis strikes a nerve among global investors, resulting in chaos on the Asian stock markets. Footage from Reuters.
Libyan warplanes pound strategic towns as resistance continues, Saudi Arabia sends troops into Bahrain to quell uprising, Yemeni police fire on protestors, injuring dozens, and more.