While much public attention is directed to national, state and large-city debt issues, Treasurer Pappas warns homeowners and taxpayers to pay careful attention to mounting local public debt in their communities.

FORBES: Cook County, Illinois Treasurer Warns U.S. Homeowners And Retirees Of Local Debt Hazards

Nervous about the use to which such outfits might be put in such National Front-controlled spots as Vitrolles, a southern town where tension between the national and local police has been mounting, Mr Jospin has promised laws to define their role and limit their powers.

ECONOMIST: France

In a bitterly ironic twist, many foreign observers argue that Cambodia is still incapable of mounting a properly constituted local tribunal for Pol Pot's surviving Khmer Rouge lieutenants.

CNN: On the Road Back

The latest twist came on Monday when the editor of City Press - a newspaper that had published a photo of the offending picture and firmly refused to remove it despite mounting pressure - announced on a local radio station that she had changed her mind.

BBC: Jacob Zuma painting - have the bullies won?

Spain pushed back against European shale with a local vote in the northern region of Cantabria mounted a vote against the practice of hydraulic fracking amid mounting concerns about its environmental impact.

FORBES: Why is Spain Pushing Back on Shale?

Through local organisations such as the one in Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, the Joint, as it is universally known, is mounting a massive private relief operation in rural Ukraine.

ECONOMIST: The East European shtetl