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In a world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wombat Love | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, Tusa says, he, Cardoso, and countless residents of Tourcoing embraced Hassanzade as one of their own in part because they were horrified at how many of his fellow Afghans have been left stranded as illegals in nearby Calais since a refugee center there was closed on Sarkozy's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

In shuttering an operation sprung in 1859 from a gold-mining camp just blocks from its downtown Denver home, Scripps directly or obliquely blamed everything - the economy, the Internet, demographics - and everybody - Denver Post panjandrum William Dean Singleton, ignorant consumers, bloggers - for the diminished tabloid's demise. They certainly were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Killed the Rocky Mountain News? | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

These were expensive lessons, but make no mistake: Beijing has not decided staying home is better than "Going Out." State companies are still sitting on mountains of cash, and although China's economy is slowing, officials see the global recession as a prime opportunity to cheaply acquire holdings of strategically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

But the deals are not without controversy, particularly in Australia, where some are worried that control of vital resources is being handed over to the Chinese. Chinalco is a huge consumer of iron ore, and mining companies fear that the investment in Rio Tinto could give China more influence over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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