Ukraine votes
Will Ukraine's east sway election?
Yulia Tymoshenko must improve her standing in Dnipropetrovsk to beat Viktor Yanukovych.
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• Opinion: Ukraine should turn west to move forward
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The "miracle babies" of Mexico City: 25 years later
As survivors are pulled from Haiti's rubble, a look at the fate of the newborns saved after Mexico City's 1985 earthquake.
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Globalization’s final frontier
Mali may be the boondocks of backwaters, but foreigners interested in oil, drugs, land, terrorists and souls are clamoring for a piece of it.
• US sponsored discrimination?
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Gay rights
Rainbow Planet: The worldwide struggle for gay rights
Information and narratives from 20 countries show the spectrum of the gay rights struggle.
• Opinion: A globalization of the culture wars
• Analysis: Where gays do serve, openly, in the military
Behind the veil
Saudi women revel in online lives
Internet gives Saudi women a rare outlet for social interaction.
• No sporting chance for Saudi women
• Life under the Taliban
Adventure travel: The Great Himalaya Trail?
Why walk Everest, K2, and other mountain giants? Because they are there.
• A fight to make salt the artisanal way
• Nigeria's oil rebels end cease-fire
Down under
Australia's awkward silence over death penalty
Death sentences imposed by Indonesia on members of the so-called Bali 9 drug smuggling group have created angst.
• Australia bans graphic games ... sort of
• Australia's economic miracle
Drugged out
Dutch crack down on marijuana tourism
And what's more, Dutch youth aren't even interested in smoking weed.
• “Legalize it” lobby gains strength across Americas
• The buzz in Japan
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British leaders reflect on US-UK relationship
Iraq inquiry turns focus on transatlantic cooperation.
• China grows thirstier
• Cambodia fishers going under
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