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There was never any doubt that Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, would raise his international profile in 2006. His schedule for the year included an official visit to China in March, chairing the G-8 summit in his hometown of St. Petersburg in July, and an invitation to be the guest of honor at a meeting of European Union leaders in Finland in October. Yet the way he dominated headlines around the world for much of the year - for better and for worse - may have come as a surprise even to the canny former kgb man, who has been...
India's Prime Minister was in Tokyo Thursday for a historic summit, and although he was accorded the rare honor of addressing Japan's legislature, he couldn't make the front-page lead of the country's national newspapers. That territory belonged to Daisuke Matsuzaka, a 26-year-old pitcher whose six-year, $52 million contract with the Boston Red Sox (plus another $51 million Boston paid to Matsuzaka's old team, the Seibu Lions, just for the right to negotiate with him) is the most lucrative deal ever for a player coming out of Japan. That...
...including meetings with top Japanese corporate leaders and a ceremony with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. But by also according Singh the unusual honor of addressing a joint session of the Japanese parliament, the Diet, Tokyo is signaling just how seriously Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking the summit with Singh...
...frequently use to illustrate their points about melting ice caps, advancing deserts and rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights like Iraqi wetlands before and after being drained by Saddam Hussein, the disappearance of the once permanent snow on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and, worst of all, the sinister and apparently unstoppable spread of Las Vegas. So it's true: Céline Dion may be as much of a threat to the planet as global warming...
...hand?at the world's most historic moments. Created in 1906 by three residents of Hamburg, Germany, who were tired of messy inkwells, Montblanc launched its Rouge et Noir fountain pen in 1908. Two years later the trio introduced the Montblanc fountain pen, named for the snow-covered summit of western Europe's highest mountain. And in 1913 the company adopted a tiny six-pointed white star, also symbolic of the snow-covered peak, as its trademark. Since its launch, the Montblanc pen has revolutionized the industry, elevating beautifully crafted writing instruments to designer status in the ever growing luxury...