PARIS, France - September 30, 2012 - Thousands of demonstrators are marching peacefully in Paris to denounce austerity measures in Europe that have sparked violent protests in other EU countries struggling to avert fiscal crises.

MADRID, Spain (PNN) - September 29, 2012 - The middle-aged man sitting on a railway station bench protects a younger man by wrapping his arms around him as he shouts desperately at the helmeted, baton-wielding pig thug cops running up and down the platforms at Madrid's Atocha station.

LISBON, Portugal (PNN) - September 29, 2012 - Thousands of Portuguese protested on Saturday against austerity, stepping up their opposition to the country's 78 billion euro bailout ahead of new spending cuts and tax hikes to be announced in the government's 2013 draft budget.

PARIS, France (PNN) - September 27, 2012 - French unemployment topped three million for the first time in over a decade, data showed Wednesday, as the country faces a yawning budget gap like those plaguing its southern eurozone neighbors.

ATHENS, Greece (PNN) - September 27, 2012 - Pig thug cops fired stun grenades and tear gas at protesters yesterday as tens of thousands poured into the streets of Athens as part of a nationwide strike to challenge a new round of austerity measures that are expected to further cut wages, pensions and health care.

GIRONA, Spain (PNN) - September 25, 2012 - According to New York Times columnist Suzanne Daley, the economic crisis has gotten so bad in Spain that one city has resorted to installing locks on supermarket trash bins as a public health precaution, thereby preventing the truly hungry from foraging for food.

NEW YORK (PNN) - September 25, 2012 - A quiet day on Wall Street turned into the worst sell-off in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the bank’s effort to boost economic growth would work.