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China must create a healthy economy; not one that is run on steroids, says William Pesek.

Pak talk shows are fanning anti-American sentiment as terrorist violence grows and US ups drone attacks.

Twenty thousand salmon were released last year to see if they would migrate and return home to breed. Only three came back.

Princess Rym Ali sits down with Arabian Business to talk funding, freedoms — and being kicked out of Baghdad.

It has been a year since the music died on Wall Street.

Several Latin American leaders have contracted a potent virus called tyrannous flu, feels Alexandre Marinis.

In the post-Lehman world, even isolated economies are still assessing the damage, says William Pesek.

In buying US Treasury securities, China isn’t being altruistic. It’s acting in its self-interest, says Caroline Baum.

Japan's geishas face competition from thousands of bars where men pay for chit-chat with women.

Economics hasn't offered convincing theories explaining the current crisis, says Matthew Lynn.

You might think your summer vacation is nothing more than a week of lazing around, working out how some of those applications on your iPhone actually work, and getting reacquainted with your family.

If someone handed out a prize for the world's luckiest head of state, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should win it hands down. What about French president Nicolas Sarkozy, you say, who's married to the beautiful and talented Carla Bruni? Or how about Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, who parties with teenage girls? No, neither is as fortunate as Lula.

There has probably never been a better time to be mega-rich, Matthew Lynn argues.

it’s uncool to gulp down huge bonuses at a time of historic losses, says Ann Woolner.

Before private equity and hedge funds started to throw their weight around, bond traders were the gunslingers of Wall Street.

Financial data giant's president also says Gulf region less impacted than US, Europe by global crisis.

India's stock market almost lost control this week, and it was a great thing for the nation.

Though some experts are seeing "green shoots" of recovery, "we aren't out of the woods yet", says Matthew Lynn.

The wise men of Washington keep finding more core beliefs that we have to give up. First it was free markets. Now it’s democracy.

This is a long, hard winter for anyone working in the financial services industry so don't push it.

Relative to other currencies, the dollar is looking better by the day, argues Michael R Sesit.

For bankers, prospect of getting a big check at end of 2009 was already bleak. Now it is a whole lot worse.

Last year will be remembered as one that exposed fatal flaws in free market capitalism.

The hijackings by Somali pirates last month would seem to have little to do with the financial crisis.

Markets greeted the news of reduced oil supply by pushing prices down further. How quickly things change.

As a 16-year-old in a dusty township, Julius Malema incited fellow students to pelt their school with rocks.

Ashima Lahiri will say her wedding vows in December wearing fake earrings, necklaces and bangles.

The fear of Democrats this year is that presidential candidate Barack Obama's advantage in the polls is exaggerated.

Cleaning up the mess of the US financial markets disaster will cause a mess of another kind.

What happened last week at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is nothing short of remarkable, and I'm not just talking about its death.

There has never been a convention speech like it: Tens of thousands of people waiting to hear Barack Obama nomination acceptance.