| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Data dim hopes of Asian stability | | The impact of what was initially a purely financial crisis has now seeped through to ordinary consumers and companies in sectors well beyond banking and insurance throughout Asia. |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:41:59 GMT | Japanese banks cut back on lending | | The global credit crunch is starting to chill lending in Japan, as banks cut back on loans. |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:44:16 GMT | Retreat from Asia unlikely for embattled Citigroup | | Citigroup faces a crisis of investor confidence, but the bank is unlikely to retreat from its strongest-performing region. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Hezbollah's foundation is built on youth | | In Lebanon, Hezbollah has marshaled these ambient energies for a highly political project: educating a younger generation to continue its military struggle against Israel. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Finland wonders if Russia stole its camouflage design | | As the world's militaries have switched over to camouflage based on digital images, countries are protecting their patterns, hence the chatter about Russia stealing from Finland. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Congressional shake-up helps Obama on climate change | | John Dingell of Michigan was ousted from his chairmanship of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, helping Barack Obama in his plans to promote efforts to combat global warming. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Judge orders release of 5 Guantánamo detainees | | The decision is likely to be seen as a major repudiation of the Bush administration's effort to use the detention center as a way to avoid scrutiny by judges. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | U.S. report predicts decline for Al Qaeda | | A global forecast by intelligence agencies says the group has alienated Muslim supporters with its indiscriminate killing and inattention to the problems of poverty, unemployment and education. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | In endless slide, a painful market turn | | World stock markets tumbled this week to their lowest levels in nearly six years, as different factors seemed to feed into each other in a vicious cycle. |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:38:30 GMT | White House to extend unemployment benefits | | With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that President George W. Bush would sign quickly legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits. |
| Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:30:21 GMT | <b>Breakingviews.com</b>: Vicious circle in the markets | | With banks facing strain again, governments must complete recapitalization plans and take further steps to prevent excessive belt-tightening. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Oil dips below $50 a barrel | | The price of a barrel of oil has shed close to $100 in four months in a stunning - and sudden - reversal, as an ailing global economy reduced its consumption. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | North Korea's bluster has a familiar ring | | North Korea, a master of survival surrounded by bigger powers, has used the same tactics often in the past and may be particularly tempted to use them again. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Pirates said to ask for $25 million ransom | | As talks for the release of a supertanker seized off Somalia continued, one of Europe's largest shipping firms said it would reroute some of its tankers to reduce piracy risk. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | EU governments to overhaul farm subsidies | | But Britain said the measures, which cover the period to 2013, did not go far enough and risked skewing markets. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Confusion in Moscow trial of men accused of killing journalist | | The jury in the trial of three men accused of involvement in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya did not demand that journalists be barred from the proceedings, a member of the jury said Thursday, contradicting a statement by a judge a day earlier. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | No collapse coming, Putin tells Russia | | Mindful that Russians have been traumatized by two other financial crises in the last two decades, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tried to assure the country Thursday that it would be able to weather the current one. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Global downturn has Taiwan high-tech companies reeling | | Makers of computer memory chips and flat-panel screens are at a disadvantage with their South Korean competitors as orders drop. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | India's stepchildren, making their own way home | | If our parents left India and trudged westward for us, then what does it mean when we choose to migrate to the place they forsook? |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Coming soon to a zoo near you: Live mammoths (maybe) | | For the first time, scientists are talking about resurrecting an extinct species as if this longtime staple of science fiction were a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | David Chan: A concertmaster whose other passion is wine | | David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, says "talking about wine is like talking about music." |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Online teens are learning skills, not wasting time | | A study finds that young people gain expertise in technological skills and managing a public identity while they do all that text-messaging. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Friedman: That crucial bond | | Is Barack Obama considering Hillary Clinton for secretary of state in order to get her off his back or as a prelude to protecting her back? |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | The secret of happiness | | I got the swizzle stick out of my nose and the flight attendant said, 'I never saw anybody do that before.' |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Greenway: The fading French connection | | France's effort to keep its beautiful language alive, to turn back the rising tide of English and combat the American cultural tsunami has a certain doomed nobility about it. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | For its online critics, China adapts response | | Leaders are being forced to react publicly to their concerns. Officials are also tailoring traditional media-control techniques to the information age. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | For Tasmanian devils, hope against a deadly disease | | A deadly cancer has preyed on the Tasmanian devil, causing it to be listed as endangered, but scientists have begun an experimental inoculation program. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Closing Guantánamo may not be easy | | Candidate Barack Obama outlined a plan to lose the detention center, but his aides now are wrestling with the thorny issues stemming from such a move. |
| Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:28:01 GMT | Ancient glory still felt in modern Egypt | | Archaeologists have found evidence of the 138th pyramid in Cairo, but these monuments to Egypt's early ingenuity are also an ever-present symbol of faded glory. |
