Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies?

Air France inaugurates its A380 service to JFK, complete with six bars, an onboard art gallery and in-flight live music. But has the economic crisis made the Airbus superjumbo a white elephant?

London

Sex, Please, We're British: London's Erotica Expo

Britain has always had a slightly uncomfortable relationship with sex. But you wouldn't know it by the thousands of visitors at the annual sex expo in London

Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex

Kiev

Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter

At the annual Eurovision contest for 10- to 15-year-olds, Europe's power roles are reversed — the former Soviet republics are the top dogs and the West finds itself totally upstaged

Postcard from Dearborn

Islamic communities nationwide are struggling to deal with the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre. In America's most Muslim city, fears of a backlash

Perkin

Guerrilla Tourism Helps El Salvador Heal

Former insurgents leading parties of local and foreign tourists around their old battlegrounds help a nation confront its dark past

Tokyo

"Nobu" Fever: Japan Falls for a Blind Piano Prodigy

The latest cultural obsession in Japan is Nobuyuki Tsujii, a 21-year-old blind piano prodigy and the first Japanese winner of the Van Cliburn International Competition in June

Reykjavik

Iceland's Fashion Designers Flourish in the Downturn

Budding fashion designers capitalize on Iceland's ailing economy to set up shop. How the financial meltdown has helped creativity flourish

A Mandarin Grade School in Minneapolis

In a pioneering Minnesota charter school, you don't have to be Chinese to get a head start in Mandarin. Saying ni hao to language immersion in the heartland

How the Beans of Egypt, Maine, Sprouted a Militia

With a jumble of grizzly and wide-eyed allies from left, right and center, the novelist Carolyn Chute thinks of leading Maine out of the Union

Vratislavice nad Nisou

Czech Republic's E.U. Holdout Has Public Support

Czech President Vaclav Klaus remains the lone holdout on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty. He's intent on shoring up support among German-wary voters first

Detroit: Where Private Security Is Booming

With a police force decimated by budget woes, the Motor City's middle-class enclaves are hiring their own to fight rising crime. Where security is a booming business

Kolkata

The Battle for Mother Teresa's Remains

Kolkata, where Mother Teresa lived and worked for nearly seven decades, was shocked this week when Albania laid claim to the saint's remains