Television movies for the week of Jan. 29

Coverage of TV and radio news from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Middle East Online

The deaths of 74 militant soccer fans in a politically loaded soccer brawl in the Egyptian Suez Canal city of Port Said has political forces across the country’s political spectrum scrambling to score points and counter a tsunami of rumours as security forces appear to have gained the upper in days of clashes with ultras and youth groups near the interior ministry in downtown Cairo.

Debt crisis: as it happened - February 2, 2012

US Fed chairman Ben Bernanke warns that the country must rein in spending and create a sustainable budget in order to avoid a debt crisis similar to that seen by Italy and Spain in the eurozone.

Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art

When creative thinkers develop a concept, they must convince others their idea is worth backing. Pitching skills are needed in the newsroom, and in the worlds of entertainment, fundraising and invention. But what makes a pitch successful?

Well done Ben - P - Jobbies!

In reply to The Truth About The Internet : Well done Ben - P - Jobbies! Another page of disjointed and bitterly unfunny hyperbole passed off as Satire. What were your editors thinking? Tirion Lanister rules, and ought to be made King.

Rare Earth by Paul Mason

The first novel from Newsnight's economics editor is an enjoyable romp through China It's a conspiracy theorist's dream. One nation holds most of the planet's supply of "rare earths", the metals and alloys key to building many of the developed world's must-have items, including mobile phones, computers, cameras and precision missiles. And that country happens to be China: the world's last great ...