Leaders of the 20 world’s most powerful countries meet in London to find a way out of the current global financial crisis and help prevent future crises. Will the G20 reach a unified stand on how to kickstart the ailing global economy?

Leaders of the 20 world’s most powerful countries meet in London to find a way out of the current global financial crisis and help prevent future crises. Will the G20 reach a unified stand on how to kickstart the ailing global economy?

A remote Norweigan town is the latest victim of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Eight communities in the Arctic circle have collectively lost almost 0m after investing the money offshore. Hamish MacDonald reports from Narvik.

A special inside Story show from Kuala Lumpur where we examine how the financial turmoil on Wall Street has affected Asian markets and economies.

The Gate Building is the heart of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC). This is a huge building that houses the Dubai Stock Exchange and offices for all of the major financial firms. These firms include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Goldman Sachs, Merril Lynch, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), UBS, Deutche Bank, the DIFX (Dubai International Financial Center) and many large international investment banks. Just like the rest of Dubai, the area around the DIFC is undergoing continuous …

Gulf markets were nursing losses of about 17 percent each last week, wiping out most of the years gains. This leads us to the central question: are the Gulf States in fact sheltered from the global financial meltdown?

Iran is one of the few countries in the world that will remain immune from a worldwide financial downturn, despite having economic problems of its own. Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports from Tehran where the people are shielding from the global economic crisis.

Riz Khan talks to Supachai Panitchpakdi, one of Asia’s leading financial minds.