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Destructive wildfires are already common in Australia, and it's not hard to see why climate change would increase their frequency. The driest inhabited continent on the planet, Australia has warmed 0.9°C since 1950, and climate models predict the country could warm further by 2070, up to 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia's Fires | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

5 | Addis Ababa United States of Africa? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the former international pariah who has mended relations with the West in recent years, was elected chairman of the African Union on Feb. 2. Gaddafi quickly vowed to pursue his dream of reorganizing the 53-member body into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Both Morel movies were produced and co-written by Luc Besson, who's a one-man French film industry. He earned his early rep as a writer-director with Subway, a vivacious crime melodrama, then made the Hollywood-influenced thrillers La Femme Nikita and The Professional (which introduced Natalie Portman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken: The French Disconnection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

At 141 years old, St. Pancras railway station is London's new, hip gateway to Europe. Thanks to a recent billion-dollar refit, passengers awaiting high-speed trains to Paris or Brussels can sip champagne at the continent's longest bar, or eat oysters and caviar at a fine-dining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proud Pound's Fall from Grace | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

There was a time not so long ago when U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's was viewed by European consumers as the advance scout of what the French loudly decried as American cultural imperialism. The Golden Arches, ran the prevailing European line, were a threat to the Continent's refined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supersizing Europe: The McDonald's Stimulus Plan | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

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