A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. A girl was killed in the quake and a man and a boy were pulled out alive from a car buried in rubble and sent to a hospital.
“They said I’d make a good lampshade,” says Julia Ioffe.
The flow of migrants and refugees into Europe is not slowing down. Thousands are sleeping at bottlenecks along various international frontiers. Cold, driving rain is creating what the UN is calling a real humanitarian crisis.
Although we don't have to contend as much with the hassles of bills and coins, another window into culture is being slammed shut.
Slovenia's Tina Maze comes from a hardscrabble mining town that has turned out a half-dozen Olympians. Tuesday Maze managed to capture her second gold at Sochi, in giant slalom. Last in the race: a virtuoso violinist competing for Thailand.
North Korea is proud of its new ski resort. The country's leader, Kim Jon Un, toured it and approved it sometime late last year. Now foreigners are being allowed in. But don't expect the experience to be anything like the ski resorts of Colorado. That, and more, in today's Global Scan.
The EU is considering a two-year ban on a widely-used group of pesticides that have been linked to bee deaths in Europe and the US. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.
A trio of Slovenians are taking an interest in cyber-security and turning it into art. They're asking people to submit their online passwords to a database they make publicly available. Eventually, they hope to turn it into a real-world exhibit.
A group of designers in Slovenia is asking people to give up their passwords voluntarily for the sake of art.
In the courtyard of St.John's church � where he has taught and performed for years � Lipovac breaks down the influences and differences in the folk music of Slovenia, where his family is from, and Croatia, its neighbor to the South.
We head to south-central Europe now for the Geo Quiz. The country we're looking for shares borders with Italy, Croatia, Hungary and Austria. It's got lots of mountains but also a sliver of waterfront property on the Adriatic Sea.