TOKYO — In Japan the possibility is increasingly being raised that a culture of complicity among power companies, utilities, regulators and politicians made the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant especially vulnerable to the natural disaster that struck the country on March 11.
Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy Synthes, the medical equipment maker, for $21.3 billion in cash and shares, one of the biggest deals ever in the healthcare sector.
TRIPOLI, Libya — In a rare interview, Aisha el-Qaddafi dismissed all talk of her family giving up power but provided insight into the fatalistic mindset of her increasingly isolated family.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The most immediate fallout was a mounting sense among Afghans that government corruption and incompetence were as much to blame as the Taliban.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — City leaders find themselves powerless as a small cadre of “emergency managers” have been dispatched by the state to put out financial blazes in Michigan’s most troubled cities.