Pavel Constantin, Romania

Market Storm: Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen

Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland

Monday was bleak. But was it really Black Monday 2: Dawn of the 21st century Great Depression?

Paul Mason isn't so sure. He's the economics editor for the BBC TV program, Newsnight. He compares ones possible financial meltdown to the problem of climate change- it's bad, it's man-made, but nobody knows how to deal with it. The World's Matthew Bell interview

Jamaican reggae star, Claudius "Kingman" Linton, is making a comeback, even though Tropical Storm Gustav has destroyed his Jamaican home. The World's Marco Werman reports.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Indian city of Chandigarh. It's one of several Indian cities where the country's biggest online matchmaking and marriage website is marketing its services. Tinku Ray reports on the website called Shaadi.com.

Modern Jewish New York humor has its roots in Eastern Europe. It's said if you want to go to where funny was born, go to Odessa, the Ukrainian city on the Black Sea. That's what The World's Jason Margolis did recently.

Our daily geography quiz.

The American writer David Foster Wallace died on Friday at the age of 46. His death is presumed a suicide. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with translator Ulrich Blumenbach, who has been working on a German edition of Wallace's novel "Infinite Jest" for the past five years.

The weekend killing of a provincial governor by a roadside bomb just outside of Kabul underlines the deteriorating security around the capital. As The World's Quil Lawrence reports, three out of four highways leading out of Kabul are now too dangerous to travel.