Gaz, great feedback!
>> In the tab Country, it shows up as cou...
I'm going to rename to "Cur." (Currency)
>> It crash on July 4th when clicking on a random one.
Your session might be expired. You have 30 mins for each usage. I'm looking for automatic session extention.
>> maybe those can be eliminated from the drop down menu
You're right! There's no need to show them.
>> Also where it says "Legend", maybe that should be at the bottom of the scroll bar?
I'm confused. You want to separate Legend from the tabs?
>> be able to filter news by Country instead of just time.
Filter or group? Filtering means showing only what you choose, while grouping means putting same column together (like now Date is grouped).
>> find a way to optimize this so it doesnt kill ur bandwidth
The server has 2GB of memory and up to 2000GB bandwidth per month! So i guess it'll be alright.

The calendar is ajaxified and compressed, so it's not using much bandwidth after first loading.