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...machines has quadrupled over the past decade, to some 324,000 in the U.S. alone, and while they racked up $2.3 billion in user fees last year, the number of monthly transactions per machine has fallen by half since 1996. Banks are essentially fighting for customers at every gas station and corner store. A few years ago, some started offering extra services, such as check cashing and stamp dispensing...
...taxi veers away from Guangzhou East Train Station, a recorded voice reminds me to please buckle my seat belt. This is excellent advice, because most taxi drivers in China have a nihilistic approach to life, limb and traffic law. There's just one problem: taxis in this town don't have seat belts. That's Guangzhou, a town making and remaking itself so rapidly it can be forgiven if it forgets to install a few safety features along the way. The entrepreneurial spirit in this capital of Guangdong province is celebrated during the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, held every April...
...seems too farfetched even for an airport novel. Three men breeze into a heavily fortified police station, stroll straight to the office that contains its most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...
According to police sources, three men entered the station flashing military passes and made their way to Room 220. They quickly overpowered the only Special Branch detective working there. He was tied up and hooded, and given a personal stereo to listen to while the three spent 20 minutes rifling through files. Then they checked the bound detective's circulation, packed up some files and disappeared. When news of the burglary filtered out, tremors went through Special Branch's network of informers and operatives. Slipups like this can mean a bullet in the head or a bomb reaching its target...
...labor ministry consultant Marco Biagi, an architect of Berlusconi's proposed reforms, carried Italians back to the dark days of the 1970s and '80s when a wave of terrorist attacks defined the nation's political and social landscape. Biagi was killed outside his Bologna home. Followed from the train station by two people on a moped, the 51-year-old father of two was shot four times. A group calling itself the Red Brigades - the same band of left-wing terrorists that carried out previous attacks - claimed responsibility. In a rambling manifesto posted on the Web, the group spewed antiquated...