Riyadh

Ramadan Spurs Saudi Nightlife

The malls are bustling as teenagers seek to amuse themselves after a day of fasting

Shanghai

Shanghai: After Beijing Games, Back in the Spotlight

Shunted into the wings for the capital's coming-out party, China's second city swaggers back onto the global stage

Arbroath

Braveheart's Heirs Open Scotland for Business

Fishing quotas killed a town's marine economy, but Scottish Nationalist politicians have revived it through European integration

Naples

The Fine Art of Garbage

Million-dollar Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong turns an Italian city's uncleared waste into art, under the watchful eye of the mob

Managua

Rewriting the Book of Daniel

Once, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were the embodiment of Catholic "liberation theology." Today their leader sups from a more diverse spiritual table

Berlin

Raising a Glass to East Germany

A new pub aims to celebrate, with tongue in cheek, the old communist regime. Not everyone appreciates the joke

Rio De Janeiro

In Bart Simpson's Urban Jungle

Snakes, alligators and monkeys pose a unique challenge to the fire department of Brazil's second city

Sydney

The Political Rock Star Helps Another Odd Bird

Former Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett, now Australia's environment minister, races to the rescue of the Southern Cassowary, a creature that does a fair job of protecting itself

Madrid

Spain's Children of the Boom Confront the Bust

A generation that has only ever known boom time is now coming to terms with bust. Goodbye to Spain's golden era

Baghdad

Video: Iraq's Pain at the Pump

Their country may have some of the world's biggest oil reserves, but Iraqis are struggling to fill their tanks

Paris

Life's a Beach in the 4th Arrondissement

Paris Plage turns two miles of the Seine into a white sand beach every year, but not all Parisians are celebrating

Beijing

Inside China's Capital on the Eve of the Games

After seven years of anticipation, residents come to terms with a city transformed

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