The Sri Lankan cricket board has resigned en masse, plunging the game's crisis-ridden administration into even deeper turmoil.

BBC: Crisis hits Sri Lankan cricket

Time will only tell whether he will continue to do that inside the EU or will leave the crisis-ridden commission for good.

BBC: News | UK Politics | Sir Leon: Britain's old hand in Brussels

Only last week, President Muhammad Khatami had proclaimed, confidently and with relief, that the two countries had put their crisis-ridden past behind them.

ECONOMIST: Iran and Europe

Perhaps the charms of Paris, where representatives from 14 Lebanese parties are to meet next week, will prove more conducive to compromise than crisis-ridden Beirut.

ECONOMIST: Lebanon

He said it was no longer true that La Scala got the lion's share of the government fund for the performing arts, which has to be shared out among all 13 of Italy's opera houses - not to mention the crisis-ridden film industry and the nation's main orchestras.

BBC: The Barber of Seville at La Scala

That painfully obvious but important lesson is that growing your way out of the debt-ridden aftermath of a financial crisis is really, really hard.

BBC: New Year messages from Japan