| | | From the Heart of Europe | 01.12.2011 | 15:00 UTC | | | |  | A week ahead of a crucial EU summit on tighter eurozone rules, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has hinted that the bank is ready to play a bigger role in the resolution of Europe's debt crisis.  | | | | |  | Makers of HIV drugs have been under pressure to increase access to their medicines in developing countries for years. A patent pool aims to boost competition in the market to keep prices down for these drugs.  | | | | |  | Global markets have surged on the news that the world's major central banks are making it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars, hoping to shore up a global economy struggling from the eurozone debt crisis.  | | | | |  | Belgium has set the world record - 535 days so far - for going the longest without a formal elected government. But a final agreement has been reached, meaning the country's political deadlock is finally nearing its end.  | | | | |  | The debt problems of eurozone countries like Greece and Italy are due in part to their governments' failure to tackle bribery and corruption, according to an annual report by an anti-corruption watchdog.  | | | | |  | Up to two million public sector workers in Britain have staged a one-day walkout in a row over pensions. The action had a severe impact on schools and services, but disruption was minimal at border controls.  | | | | |  | Gunshot to the back of the neck: that's how authorities in Belarus carry out the death sentence. Dmitri Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov face this punishment. They have been convicted of bombing a Minsk metro station.  | | | | |  | More than 2 million public sector workers in the UK have walked off the job over pension reforms, sparking major travel delays. The coordinated industrial action is the country's largest one-day strike in 30 years.  | | | | |  | Long known as one of the world's most tolerant cities - especially on the issue of cannabis - Amsterdam is feeling the winds of change as the national government applies pressure to clean up the capital.  | | | | |  | | © 2011  | | | | | |
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