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Camp Rumah

A Saudi Titan Watches Wall Street's Meltdown

Even as U.S. markets tumbled last week, one of their biggest stakeholders — Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal — was in a generous mood

La Paz

The Last Days of a Nazi-Era Photographer

Hans Ertl, who helped shape the official visual record of Hitler's regime, left behind a veritable archive - in a shoe box

Tehran

A Night With the Morality Police

Being arrested over the length of your coat is humiliating, but many enforcers are no longer ideologues, just ordinary citizens doing a job

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

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