Imagine hearing that your favourite athlete had drowned after being stuffed in the hull of a ship in order to avoid authorities and cross a treacherous body of water. Their goal in this alternative universe was to flee violence as well as earn enough to support their families.
That is exactly what happened to the goalkeeper for the Gambian national women鈥檚 football team, Fatim Jawara.
The tribulations of major European banks, starting with 鈥渧enerable institutions鈥 like the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (the world鈥檚 oldest bank) and Deutsche Bank (Germany鈥檚 largest), have raised the spectre of a repeat of the crash of 2008 鈥 a 鈥淟ehman Brothers times five鈥 in the words of one market analyst.
Deutsche Bank has been found to be seriously under-capitalised, both according to the standards set under the Basel III international bank regulation standards and according to its own targets. The same goes for British giant Barclays.
Thousands of protesters marched through Brussels on September 20 to demand the European Union abandon planned trans-Atlantic free trade deals they say will worsen labour conditions and allow big business to challenge governments.
It came just days after tens of thousands rallied against such deals on September 17 in other European cities, mainly in Germany.
The six richest countries in the world, who make up almost 60% of the world鈥檚 economy, are hosting less than 9% of the total number of refugees in the world, a July 18 report by British charity Oxfam found.
Tragic photos and videos of masses of asylum seekers and immigrants from the Middle East and Africa have recently shocked the world. But these ordeals have been going on for a long time.
Years of news of innocent people drowning by the thousands in the Mediterranean, suffocated by the hundreds in trucks smuggling them to 鈥渟afe zones鈥, were not enough to catch the world鈥檚 attention.