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Rolls-Royce will start hand-building the cars at its south England plant in September, with the first deliveries scheduled to go out in early January. The company says it expects to sell about 2,000 Ghosts annually, although Purves says that may not happen until after the recession is over. "It's not at all a frothy environment [right now]," he admits. But analysts say the sales figure is a realistic goal. John Wormald, managing partner of the British automotive consultant Autopolis, says sales of the Ghost could eventually reach 5,000 a year...
...police busted an organ racket outside New Delhi that allegedly conned or forced poor laborers to relinquish their kidneys to wealthy clients. Investigators say the ring operated for years and included a doctor, Amit Kumar, who would use scouts to spot potential marks. Another kidney ring flourished in South Africa from 2001 to 2003, and black markets thrive in nations like China, Pakistan and the Philippines. (Read a TIME story about the debate over legalizing the organ trade...
...million people have been killed since the conflict began in 1996, some through direct abuse, others through the political and economic chaos that the conflict has created. Armed groups frequently force civilians to mine the minerals, extorting taxes and refusing to pay wages. The report quotes one miner from South Kivu: "We are their meat, their animals. We have nothing to say." (See pictures of the civil war in Congo...
...unlimited but extremely slow Internet connections, barely capable of making Skype calls, for about $40 per month. "No one can [guarantee] there will be a 90% drop next year, but hopefully there will be," says Christopher Stork, senior researcher at Research ICT Africa, a technology analysis firm based in South Africa. "That's the minimum we would expect, but in the long term, it would be much, much cheaper...
Biden also made plain that in terms of Georgia's breakaway regions, "there is no military option to reintegration ... Only a peaceful and prosperous Georgia has the prospect of restoring [its] territorial integrity by showing those in Abkhazia and South Ossetia a Georgia where they can be free and their communities can flourish." (See more on Georgia-Russia relations...