Populist Daily

A report said that Lehman Brothers used accounting tricks.

The Wall Street bank used accounting gimmicks to hide its financial weakness in the months before its bankruptcy, according to a 2,200-page report.

A protester during a demonstration Thursday in Athens. As a consequence of bargains struck between strong unions and weak governments, Greece has promised early retirement to about 700,000 employees.

Greece’s retirement plan, which lets 14 percent of its work force retire early, has become divisive in Europe.

Junie Sufrad, 110, with other residents of a nursing home in Léogâne, Haiti.

No strangers to hardship, elderly Haitians find themselves distinctly vulnerable and emotionally burdened these days.

Mark Torgerson prepared to launch a weather balloon in Whistler last month.

The Vancouver Games forecasting system is part of a program to improve the accuracy of short-term, winter storm forecasting.

Fighting between Afghan subtribes raises questions about using tribes as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.

Japan opposes an effort to ban the trade of bluefin tuna like this one at a fish market in Tokyo.

Negotiations on protecting endangered species will open in Qatar with tensions over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory.

Crown Prince Naruhito, left, with his wife, Crown Princess Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, at Togu Palace in Tokyo. The family has not fared well in the harsh glare of Japan's press.

The bullying of the 8-year-old daughter of Princess Masako has put the princess’s history of depression into the glare of Japan’s tabloid press.