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Global News Blog After shipwreck, Costa Concordia gets the musical treatment
The 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking is the loose inspiration for a new Bollywood-style musical to be filmed in Italy this summer.
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Change Agent International Women’s Day: Innovations lifting women out of poverty
International Women's Day (March 8) celebrates women's achievements. Innovative ideas and programs, such as the 12 below, are helping women better care for themselves and their families.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
'Pure, astonishing reportage’ of makeshift life in an Indian slum.
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Cover Story Wind power: Clean energy, dirty business?
In the developing world, where land-intensive wind turbines are being rapidly constructed, wind power has often turned clean energy into dirty business.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo's story of residents in a Mumbai slum is meticulously researched and told with unblinking honesty.
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Change Agent Five innovations working to empower women
Women produce more than half of the world's food but face unique challenges as farmers. Five innovative programs are helping them – and strengthening the world's food system.
12/28/2011 10:04 am -
Anna Hazare: India's anticorruption activist wins right to fast in public
Anna Hazare defied an initial ruling restricting him to a three-day protest and is now allowed 15 days. But critics argue he and his supporters should press their demands through the ballot box.
08/18/2011 11:35 am -
In India, communists ousted in 2 of 4 state elections
The elections in four Indian states were read as something of a 'midterm' referendum, highlighting mounting concerns over corruption and lagging development.
05/13/2011 11:36 am -
India's telecoms minister resigns amid anticorruption drive
India's telecommunications minister resigned Sunday amid a major corruption scandal. His is one of a string of resignations as India's anticorruption drive gets under way.
11/16/2010 10:04 am -
Global News Blog Commonwealth Games closing ceremony includes a game of tag – and lots of security
The closing ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Games began Thursday in spectacular fashion at the Indian capital's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium.
10/14/2010 02:28 pm -
Why India embraces Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa in first postwar visit
Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa signed several deals with India during his visit this week, his first since quashing the Tamil Tiger rebels. He also faced protests from India’s sizable Tamil community over the wartime death of civilians.
06/10/2010 10:03 am -
Megacities of the world: a glimpse of how we'll live tomorrow
By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in megacities, offering the benefits of concentrated living but also some of the biggest public-works challenges in human history.
05/05/2010 12:22 pm -
Beyond Kasab guilty verdict, Mumbai attacks reshape Indian law
The guilty verdict announced Monday for Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab closed one chapter of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. But the impact on counterterrorism policy is still slowly unfolding.
05/03/2010 12:30 pm -
Annular solar eclipse: In India, a chanting temple goes silent
The annular solar eclipse passed over India Friday, creating a 'ring of fire' that brought the world's largest and noisiest religious festival to silence.
01/15/2010 09:22 am -
The fate of Sri Lanka's Tamils after the Tigers
The LTTE rebels may be gone, but what about their fight for a homeland for the ethnic Tamil minority?
06/05/2009 01:00 am -
Some Tamils wary of Sri Lankan leader's outreach
The president promised the ethnic minority 'equal rights' during a victory speech Tuesday.
05/19/2009 01:00 am -
Terrorism & Security Sri Lankan war roils Indian politics
Tamil parties threaten to withdraw from India's Parliament, but some see this as an attempt to wrest more seats in upcoming elections.
10/22/2008 01:00 am -
Terrorism & Security Sri Lanka bombings follow government strikes
Tamil Tiger attacked a police station on Monday. Civilians are an increasing target in the conflict.
06/16/2008 01:00 am -
Terrorism & Security India: discontent, poverty fueling Naxalite rebels
A government-appointed committee says violence by the Maoist insurgency is growing and urges the government to talk with rebels.
04/28/2008 01:00 am -
In India, new rat trap boosts low-caste tribe
The new device has enabled the Irula people to quadruple their daily catch. Once ridiculed, they're now called 'saviors' by farmers.
01/14/2008 12:00 am -
Terrorism & Security Sri Lankan government minister killed amid an upsurge in violence
Following Colombo's withdrawal from a 2002 truce with Tamil rebels, nation-building chief DM Dassanayake was fatally wounded in a roadside bombing.
01/08/2008 12:00 am
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