Alison Smale: A look at living with less during tough times, from three points of view.
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Child malnutrition rates are worse in India than in many sub-Saharan African countries, a paradox in a proud democracy enjoying rapid economic growth recently.
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Japan condemned North Korea's plan to launch a rocket, warning that it was legally entitled to shoot down any threatening object that falls toward its territory.
By MATTHEW SALTMARSH AND DAVID JOLLY
The Swiss bowed to international pressure to conform to international standards on exchanging information in suspected cases of tax evasion but maintained that banking secrecy was intact.
By LOUISE STORY
In Charlotte, North Carolina, where Bank of America casts a long shadow, there is concern about the bank's leadership.
By BETTINA WASSENER
Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano of Japan said the government would have the outline of a new economic package to be ready by the Group of 20 summit in London in April.
By MICHAEL WINES AND BETTINA WASSENER
China, the biggest holder of U.S. government debt, expressed concern about the assets' safety.
- Drone strike kills 21 in Pakistan
- German police question warning on Internet
- European bonds fall on issuance fears; stocks gain
- Obama calls for military dialogue with China
- Beijing exhibition paves over much of Tibet's history
- The problem? Bankers point to the rules
- Bidders step up for Satyam
- Obama on the spot as rulings aid gay partners
- Madoff pleads guilty to vast fraud and is jailed
SPECIAL COVERAGE »
Today's Topic:
Should the Obama administration rescue ailing banks as part of its economic stimulus efforts, or allow the weakest ones to fail?
Should the Obama administration rescue ailing banks as part of its economic stimulus efforts, or allow the weakest ones to fail?
Video
Some of his victims observed as Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to the biggest fraud in Wall Street history.
Black white and green all over. Suzy Menkes looks at Chanel’s latest collection.
President Obama says he is open to talking to some elements of the Taliban, but do lessons from Iraq apply?
Artists display their work in an effort to brighten closed store fronts.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invites Tehran to a meeting to be held on Afghaninistan.
The travel and leisure business is anything but fun these days, with "staycations" replacing vacations.
The executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, Alison Smale, on the big global issues of the week.
A service at the Riverside Church in New York pays respect to Odetta, the civil rights icon and musician.
The most famously looted museum in the Middle East is back in business.
The Obama family may not be in Chicago anymore, but the old routine apparently still apllies.
Advertisement
* updated
News from AP
3:18PM*
3:18PM*
3:14PM*
3:13PM*
* updated
