Wall Street Journal (USA)
Lean times, tough steps in Hungary
 

The US financial daily reports from eastern Europe, where former communist economies are currently taking the brunt of the credit crunch.

Heti Vilaggaz-dasag (Hungary)
The grand national pow-wow: from the IMF to the IMF in 20 short years
 

The Hungarian paper sets about blaming the country’s political and business elite for the current crisis. It says mistakes they’ve made in the wake of communism have left Hungary debt-ridden and at the mercy of foreign speculators.

Libération (France)
Les femmes, remède au krach
Women prove crisis-proof
 

The French daily wonders if the world might have been spared the current financial turmoil if only more women were present in the boardroom. It follows a survey showing that the companies with the most woman managers have fared the best as stock markets tumble.

The Australian (Australia)
Primping Palin costs a small fortune
 

The Australian broadsheet marvels at the 150,000 dollars US Republicans have spent on clothes and make-up for their candidate for the vice presidency.

The Guardian (UK)
Wealth gap creating a social time bomb
 

The UK daily frets over a UN survey showing growing disparities of wealth in the world’s major cities.

The Telegraph (UK)
MPs vote to allow human-animal hybrids
 

Science proves stranger than science fiction as the UK parliament backs plans to inject human cells into rabbits' ones. All to help cure illness, of course.