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  • Reports are out that Cuban citizens can now buy and sell property for the first time since the country's Communist revolution.

  • The U.K. isn't in the eurozone, but the effects of the euro crisis are hitting London's street markets, and the wallets of the people who shop there.

  • A new BBC poll shows that while people in developed countries have a negative outlook for the future, those in the developing world are much more optimistic.

  • African nations with trading relationships with Europe are troubled by the eurozone crisis, but the biggest casualty could be African monetary union.

  • A worker controls as a hopper wagon unloads soybean into his truck in a field in the locality of Perez Millan, 200 km from Buenos Aires, on April 3, 2008. Argentina is the world's leading exporter of oil and oilseed meal and the third in soybeans.
    DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images

    Argentina defaulted on its debt in 2002. A decade later, the country is back on its feet, thanks in no small part to the lowly soy bean.

  • PIMCO's Bill Gross says it took us more than seven years to get into this mess, and it'll take just as long to get out of it.

  • L.A.'s flower market is one of the biggest in the world, but it's suffering thanks to the euro crisis — as uncertain shoppers cut back and uncertain wholesalers order less.

  • Chinese companies that depend on Europe to buy their goods are suffering. But Europe's problems have given other Chinese firms the chance to catch up to the West.

  • The government in Thailand says the worst of the flooding is probably over for central Bangkok. But the damage will be far reaching.

  • A deal was reached among the leaders in Europe over how to fight off a recession, but is the plan enough to get the job done?

BBC World Service