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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

Johannesburg

A Chinese Color War

Under apartheid, South Africa's Chinese were excluded as non-white. Then, the post-apartheid government excluded them as non-black, until they fought back

Florence

A City's Infernal Dante Dispute

Florence wants to make amends for exiling Italy's most famous poet seven centuries ago. But one of Dante's descendants is not impressed

Mumbai

The Death of the Indian Dream

As the price of food and fuel soars, the divide between rich and poor in India is widening

Cairo

The Relentless Din of Egypt's Capital

Video: Cairenes find their health threatened by dangerously high noise levels

Sanaa

'If You Kill All the Christians ...'

How one Yemeni sheik and his volunteer organization are fighting tribal gun culture and Islamic extremism

Mexico City

A Den of Sin or a Beacon of Liberty?

Conservatives are up in arms over Mexico City legalizing abortion and same-sex unions. But leftist politicians believe the government's social conservatism could be its downfall

Dakar

Africa's Lions of the Scrabble Board

When it comes to the World Championship of the French-language version of the erudite board game, Senegal is the team to beat

Preah Vihear

A Rumble in the Jungle?

Cambodian and Thai troops face off around a thousand-year-old Hindu temple. But the standoff may be driven by domestic politics on both sides

Cannes

When Jellyfish Attack

Global warming and overfishing have turned the surf off France's south coast into a gelatinous mass swarming with menace

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