With global televisions screens still filled with news reporters standing in front of uncommunicative buildings in Greece and Italy saying "we're expecting to hear soon", we chose to lead this week's paper with a broader view of current events. The Observer's Andrew Rawnsley reflects on the just-released Forbes' most powerful people list, and on the said individuals' apparently near total powerlessness in the face of an economic tsunami. And we look into Greece's abyss, reflecting on just what might happen were it to leave the euro.
Also on finance, we've a must-read piece from the Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein. His figures on the ratio of speculators to producers and consumers in commodities markets (should be 30%, is around 70%) go a long way to summing up how we got where we are today.
Across the pond, we hear how Mitt Romney appears to be settling in as the Republican frontrunner, with a message that plays on the fears accompanying the US Age of Anxiety. The talk of fear continues in a report on how the FBI has identified the band Insane Clown Posse as a "gang threat". That gives us the chance to put pictures of Romney and "Violent J" from ICP on the same page - probably not something that happens often.
As you'd expect we've also got coverage of the renewed interest in Iran's nuclear programme and the renewed talk of a military campaign against it. And we look at the disturbing story behind Kenya's incursion into Somalia.
Learning English this week roams widely, from Vietnam, where officials are seeking a teaching "miracle", to Namibia, where Heziwell Mhunduru is introducing King Lear to learners with no background in literature.
For your cultural fix, we range from a Canadian film centred around curling, to a biography of David Bowie, via an exploration of the "earthy, sexy, feminine" work of artist Pipilotti Rist.
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