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...decades, they have been a familiar sight in the sun-kissed Indian state of Kerala or the country's crumbling eastern metropolis of Kolkata. The somber portraits of dead white men - a bearded Marx, a bespectacled Lenin, and Stalin, his moustache bristling - peer down at passers-by from banners strung up over palm trees or street-corner billboards, accompanied by the less-hallowed visages of local comrades. India's Communists have been key players in the hurly burly of the world's largest democracy, dominating the ballot box in states like West Bengal, where Kolkata is the capital, and where...
...everything is bad. Tsvangirai has made some progress in resurrecting Zimbabwe's all-but-dead economy. Schools that closed last September after teachers went on strike have reopened. Zimbabweans can now go to shops to buy basic goods that had not been available for 10 years, such as maize meal, sugar, cooking oil and salt (previously they had to be purchased in neighboring Botswana or South Africa and brought into the country). "I think they have done a lot," says economist John Robertson, "but prices must go down, and that will happen only when production improves." He adds, "Our [labor...
...elements of the case were a tabloid's dream and a government's nightmare: a powerful lawmaker and real-estate mogul, a policeman-turned-hitman, scorned love, a $2 million murder contract and leaked photos of a beautiful star's dead body. Though all death sentences must be reviewed by the country's chief religious official, Egyptians are hailing the verdict as evidence that in a legal system often accused of iniquity, nobody is above the law. Moustafa's attorney has vowed to appeal...
...that he may ratify the reform blueprint if Ireland does - Irish voters turned down the treaty in a referendum last June and another vote is scheduled for the fall. (Since the treaty needs unanimous approval, the Irish rejection essentially blocks it from going into effect.) "The Lisbon Treaty is dead for the moment," Klaus said after the Senate vote. "Therefore, my decision on its ratification is not on the agenda for the time being." The president's followers in the Senate also plan to challenge the treaty in the Constitutional Court, the Czech Republic's highest court, and Klaus...
...more than a year, after the Christian Brothers won a court case preventing members and former members from being named in the commission's final report - including those who had already been convicted of abuse. "There was a very serious worry about injustices being done to [brothers] who were dead or to living people who were accused and who maintained their innocence," says Brother Edmund Garvey, a spokesman for the order. "But there was no intention to obstruct or delay [the commission]." (See the top 10 religion stories...