New York Times:
President Obama was elected in part because he promised a more cooperative and pragmatic leadership in world affairs, but he should also be willing to stand up to Beijing.
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New York Times:
The United States should stick to its guns and list the bluefin tuna as an endangered species to protect it from being fished into extinction.
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guardian.co.uk Society:
Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
The Guardian:
• 'Calls have fallen on deaf ears at French Football Federation'• FAI's John Delaney also thanks 'solidarity of the French people'The Republic of Ireland have been forced to admit defeat in their efforts to be granted a replay of their World Cup play-off clash with France. After Fifa rejected their appeals to have the secon (Read More)
The Guardian:
News Corp site settles row with Merlin agency whose clients include Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire WeekendMySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking s (Read More)
The Guardian:
Be it giving them Viagra, putting them in a pageant or paying $14m for them, every culture has eccentricities about animalsCan a man kill a goat armed with little more than his eyes? Well, the US military seemed willing to believe in the possibility of such superhuman powers, as revealed in The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon R (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Italian prosecutor seeks maximum term if Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are convicted of killing British studentAn Italian prosecutor has asked for life imprisonment for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, the pair accused of murdering Meredith Kercher, a British student.Knox, an American, is accused of instigating the (Read More)
The Guardian:
After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vitalOne man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin, told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa that all detainees handed over to the Afghanistan governmen (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ten British servicewomen on operations in Afghanistan have been sent back to the UK in the past six months after falling pregnant, it was revealed today.The servicewomen were evacuated between April 31 and October 31 this year under military rules which ban pregnant women from being on battle duty, according to figures rele (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Aaron Cohen travels the world, rescuing girls sold into prostitution. He tells Carole Cadwalladr why he does it – and how a suburban kid turned heroin addict became a human rights campaignerI don't know where to even start with Aaron Cohen. With his day job, springing imprisoned girls out of brothels? With his past life as (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
In August, journalist Toby Young announced in this newspaper that he wanted to found a new type of 'free' school where access to a good education is not based on income. Three months on, his biggest problem is battling bureaucracy and accusations of middle-class snobberyI emerged from a meeting with the DCSF (Department for (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The way we treat people with dementia suggests we're a long way from being the caring country we claim to beEven after last week's storms, a praetorian handful of leaves still gamely cling to the lower branches of the oak in our garden. And in churches on Sunday the lists of the sick and the dying and the recently deceased (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Former Python star has shown us the world beyond our shores but after forging a bond with a 26-year-old Somali refugee he hopes to open our eyes to problems much closer to homeThey make for an odd couple. One is an epoch-defining comedian, not to mention a popular explorer and best-selling author who is fast approaching her (Read More)
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Colleagues laughed when a young journalist in Palestine announced his intention to tell the story of that region though cartoons. Twenty years later, Joe Sacco is one of the world's leading exponents of the graphic novel form…In his books, Joe Sacco always draws himself the same way: neat and compact, a small bag slung acro (Read More)