Greece gets Obama boost as finance minister visits London

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis meets his British counterpart on Monday as he seeks to build support for a renegotiation of his country's 240-billion-euro ($270-billion) bailout in the face of German opposition. The latest stop on his European charm offensive comes as US President Barack Obama warned the world that imposing tough austerity programmes on Greece could backfire on its creditors. "You cannot keep on squeezing countries that are in the midst of depression," Oba