Europe's Oil Price Crisis Fed up with high fuel prices and organized enough to make their case with a vengeance, protesting truckers and farmers take to the roads to issue a wake-up call to their out-of-touch governments
Viewpoint The price of petrol is the bread price of the 21st century, says Josef Joffe, and Europe's governments cannot afford to tell their constituents to eat cake
E U R O P E Countdown to a Showdown Czech authorities are hoping the country's biggest police mobilization in 50 years will keep things calm, but anti-globalization activists are doing their best to force a Seattle-style confrontation at this month's World Bank-IMF meeting in Prague
Testing Time Will the Czech police keep their cool?
M I D D L E E A S T Israel: Miracle Makers Israel's Shas Party is tapping into mysticism to give its politics more potency
O L Y M P I C S The Real Australia Robert Hughes on his huge, young and complex homeland
D I G I T A L Cashing In on Mobile Madness New technologies will lead cell phone users to the nearest cash machine Ñ and generate profits
A Battle Against the Odds The New Economy looks like the old one to women climbing the corporate ladder
