Europe's Financial Crisis
欧洲债务危机

Not in decades has Europe so gripped investors the way it did this year. The state of the US economy, normally the focus of global markets, has become almost an afterthought.
欧洲的投资者在这一年达到了空前的担忧。美国经济作为全球市场的核心位置几乎被遗忘殆尽。

Japan's Triple Disaster
日本三重灾难

An earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale and the associated tsunami devastated Japan's north-eastern region Tohuku. The tsunami overwhelmed the limited seawall around the Fukushima nuclear plant, knocking out all its power supplies and triggering a massive nuclear crisis.
3月11日，日本东北部海岸发生里氏9级大地震，引发毁灭性的海啸。海啸吞没了福岛核电站附近的海堤，造成核电站所有电力供应中断，引发全世界范围内的核电危机。