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The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt. The idea of a debt clock for an individual nation is familiar to anyone who has been to Times Square in New York, where the American public shortfall is revealed. Our clock (updated September 2012) shows the global figure for almost all government debts in dollar terms.

If you can spare 5 mins have a look at this. Click on the country to find out how much we owe??? I thought Greece was in trouble. Look at the US as well

sir, if we owe the US 578.6bn and they owe us 834.5bn why cant they just cancel out our debt and the US pay the difference? seems silly,accounting for debt that both countries owe.

Greta graphic on large people

"THE best quality of life of any of the world's urbanites is still enjoyed by Melburnians, according to the latest Liveability report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, our corporate sibling. For the third year in a row Australia's second city has kept a hair's breadth ahead of Vienna and Vancouver, which spent almost a decade in first place before Melbourne's reign began. The ranking scores 140 cities on a scale of zero to 100 for each of 30 factors such as the quality of public healthcare or the threat of military conflict. These 30 values are then combined to create scores in five areas: stability, infrastructure, education, health care, and culture and environment. A weighted average of those five numbers gives each city its final score."

"The new CLW report looks at three Pegatron factories (Pegatron Shanghai, Riteng in Shanghai, and AVY in Suzhou) that are key Apple suppliers. It found ongoing labour abuses - such as excessive work hours above China's legal limit; pregnant women forced to quit for their own well-being; underage labor from local vocational colleges - and other wrongdoings like environmental pollution."

"As online shopping explodes in Britain, helping to push traditional retailers such as HMV out of business, more and more jobs are moving from high-street shops into warehouses like this one. Under pressure from politicians and the public over its tax arrangements, Amazon has tried to stress how many jobs it is creating across the country at a time of economic malaise. The undisputed behemoth of the online retail world has invested more than £1bn in its UK operations and announced last year that it would open another three warehouses over the next two years and create 2,000 more permanent jobs. Amazon even had a quote from David Cameron, the prime minister, in its September press release. "This is great news, not only for those individuals who will find work, but for the UK economy," he said."

"The Maersk 'Triple-E' container ship is the biggest vessel in the world. But what goes into building the ultimate engine of commerce? Click on the yellow hotspots to read more about what makes the ship a state of the art machine."

use the RED button on the RIGHT "start comparing cities" choose London and Mumbai and then change the THEME

"Global soft drinks manufacturers are dependent on the emulsifier but with a lack of transparency over supply chains, sustainable gum arabic is hard to find" If youlike COCA COLA / PEPSI you should read this

"The richest, most powerful generation that ever lived is embarking on a comfortable retirement. But why does it feel like they've pulled up the ladder with them?"

"A Russian official referred last week to Great Britain as "a small island to which no-one pays any attention". PM David Cameron responded by challenging anyone to name a country with a "prouder history, with a bigger heart, with a greater resilience". But he conceded that the UK was a "small group of islands". Is it?"

"IPCC climate change figures: then and now - interactive From the world population total to the global temperature mean, find out what has changed since the 2007 report from the UN's climate panel, the IPCC. Click on the arrow at the bottom of the screen to take a tour of the facts and figures" YOu can SCREENSHOT the graphics to include in your work

"The UN is to publish the most exhaustive examination of climate change science to date, predicting dangerous temperature rises. How hot will it get in your lifetime? Find out with our interactive guide, which shows projections based on the report" EXCELLENT interactive graphic - i was born in 1960 check out the change in that short time

"Satellite images show how the march of progress has altered the face of the earth in just a few decades. The images were all taken by a fleet of Earth-observing satellites that form part of the 'Landsat' program, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on 23 July."

"Drought-prone areas will become drier and wet tropical regions wetter, says Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"

"Click play on the timeline to see how fossil fuel emissions of every country have changed since 1960" This is really excellent. Spend some time understanding it the pattern

Cotton - one farmer a shocking number of t shirts

"t has been announced today that the UK and China have agreed a £45m pig semen export deal. That's a figure not to be sniffed at. Selling our pigs' semen to the world's biggest pig producer would be a boost to British exports and good for our country's economy. What isn't touched on in coverage of the deal is the welfare aspect. What conditions will the resulting pigs be kept in, in China? It raises the ethical discussion that comes up time and time again: just because we can do something, does that mean we should?"

"Eastern China's dangerous levels of air pollution blamed on coal burning, car exhaust, factories and weather patterns"

"Muli coalfield is illegally gobbling up a nature reserve, blasting away alpine meadows and destroying the ecosystem of the country's second largest river, Greenpeace investigation shows"