VIDEO: Eurozone crisis: Where are we now?

As Ireland exits the European Union bailout programme, BBC Breakfast's Dominic Laurie has been looking back at which eurozone countries have recovered from the economic crisis.

He also considered the situation now with Jeremy Cook, chief economist at foreign exchange brokers, World First.

"It's become a lot less acute, the problems we have in the eurozone," Mr Cook said, but "the real fear is that [unemployment] lingers... People are emigrating to places which are growing at the moment. Europe used to pull people in, and it's letting people out now."

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VIDEO: Tobacco factory owner on growth

Whether called shisha, hookah, nargillah or hubbly bubbly, the tobacco water pipe has long been a favourite of smokers in the Middle East.

One UAE based company has capitalised on this love affair - by transforming a small-scale tobacco factory into a major global supplier.

The BBC met the man behind the Al Fakhouri business in the emirate of Ajman.

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VIDEO: Inside the US Federal Reserve

On 23 December 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act creating the US central bank that this month celebrates its 100th birthday.

Created in the wake of financial panics of the early 20th century - and in the teeth of deep suspicion of centralised power - it is now perhaps the most powerful financial institution on the planet.

BBC business reporter Simon Jack was granted rare access to the Federal Reserve's inner sanctum - just a stone's throw from the White House.

Inside the Fed, BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 10 December, 20:00 GMT, or listen again on the BBC iPlayer.

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VIDEO: Tunisian women jobless after uprising

It is almost three years since the Arab uprisings began with Tunisia leading the way.

Creating more jobs was a big demand of the protesters who forced out President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

But revolution has not helped that happen - about a third of people under the age of 30 are still unemployed and young women in particular are suffering.

Simon Atkinson reports from the capital, Tunis.

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VIDEO: What next after the 3D printed gun?

The American crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson shot to fame when he produced the world's first 3D printed gun and made the plans available online for free.

So what is he planning to do next? He tells BBC Click about some of his latest projects and explains why he decided to make the gun.

Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.

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VIDEO: 'Mandela mall opening was best day'

South African entrepreneur Richard Maponya has been talking about building up his retail empire and challenging the restrictions of the Apartheid state.

Widely regarded as the country's first black tycoon, he started from a dairy business and supermarkets.

But the "highlight" of his life, he told Lerato Mbele, was when his long-time friend Nelson Mandela opened his shopping mall - the country's first - in Soweto in 2007.

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VIDEO: 'Early failure was best lesson'

Colourful Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has been telling the BBC how an early experience of failure and a bailout by her grandmother "was the best lesson" of her life.

"Thank God I had that lesson at that time - it helped me not do silly things in the rest of my life," she explained.

She admits that her biggest success came after being pushed into children's clothing. "[It] was like saying, 'You don't know how to do woman's clothes!' I was not happy at all."

And her advice to budding students is to have self-belief: "If you don't believe in yourself, who is going to?"

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VIDEO: The challenges of e-commerce in India

Indian store-owners got together this week to offer three days of discounted shopping - but only for those buying via the internet.

Shilpa Kannan met some of the 200 retailers involved in the annual online shopping festival in Delhi and asked them about the potential for e-commerce in India.

She found that while internet shopping is growing, it faces unique challenges in India.

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VIDEO: VW Kombi: The end of the road

The Volkswagen T1, better known as the Kombi, has been on the world's roads since 1950 and became one of the symbols of an easy-going, simple way of life in the following decades.

The vehicle is now only built in Brazil where it is still used by thousands of small businesses, despite its simple design and functional performance.

But as Wyre Davies reports from Sao Paulo, Volkswagen is to stop making the Kombi and a motoring era is coming to an end.

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VIDEO: The growth of Indian publishing

Mumbai has hosted two literary festivals recently and the number of these kinds of events has risen rapidly over the past few years.

It is being put down to the rise in the number of Indian authors writing in English.

Yogita Limaye reports on the boom in the country's publishing industry.

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VIDEO: Is this the home and office of 2023?

Giant 82in (208cm) TV screens, computers that can see and more flexible working thanks to a new generation of PCs - that's one vision of the future being presented by Microsoft.

The BBC's North America technology correspondent Richard Taylor went to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where the company has created a home and office of the future.

But how realistic a prediction is it of life in five to 10 years time?

Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.

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VIDEO: China's consumer spending drive

China has been looking to rebalance its economy as it aims for sustainable long term growth.

Policymakers want growth to be driven more by consumer spending, rather than by exports and a government led investment boom.

But that could be difficult as the Chinese like to save - typically putting away a third of their disposable income.

The BBC's Beijing correspondent Martin Patience examines how the government might encourage the Chinese to be a little less prudent.

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'Reading Rooster' offers vibrant video book ideas

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — During her 50 years of literacy work in South Carolina, Helen Fellers has been a storyteller, bookmobile driver and branch librarian in the effort to get children to read. Now the 79-year-old uses You Tube videos to put her vibrant-for-books persona on display with "Reading Rooster" book recommendations for children, teachers and librarians.

With a luscious Southern accent and more than a dollop of dramatic flair, Fellers declares books "scrumptious," ''delicious," or "A find for fairy tale fans."

Sometimes she dons a feathered mask, colorful coats or fringed capes to deliver her three-minute, twice-monthly book reviews, always accompanied by one or more of her beloved...

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Argentina Student Creates Video of Study Abroad Experience

Sohee Cha, a University of Pennsylvania student who attended our Argentine Universities Program in Buenos Aires, created a video of her experiences in Argentina. The video is posted on YouTube. Sohee was also one of our IFSA-Butler Ambassadors. Great work, Sohee!

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