NEWS Riot police officers fired tear gas on Tuesday night at tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo protesting the Islamist-backed draft constitution. It was the clearest evidence yet that the new charter has only widened the divisions that have plagued Egypt since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago. David D. Kirkpatrick reports from Cairo.
For all the talk about Germany's financial exposure to Greece, it turns out that some German banks have a problem of more titanic proportions: their vulnerability to the global shipping trade. Jack Ewing reports from Frankfurt.
Goaded on by entrenched gender discrimination in politics and elsewhere , a growing band of young Chinese are staging playful, but pointed, public protests for greater rights for women, Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes from Beijing.
ARTS Islamic art, ancient and modern, is getting its due in Paris. Besides the Louvre's lavish new galleries, the Arab World Institute has a striking exhibition of contemporary Arab art on view. Daphne Angles writes from Paris.
The Staatstheater in Stuttgart puts a spin on the Soviet-era opera “L'Écume des Jours†by Edison Denisov. George Loomis reviews.
SPORTS The Elite Football League of India, a curious venture aimed at introducing the American sport to South Asia, has a low level of play but a large potenti al audience. Vikas Bajaj and Ken Belson report.
The International Olympic Committee has suspended the Indian Olympic Association for chronic violations of their charter, creating one of the most embarrassing episodes in Indian sports history. Gardiner Harris reports from New Delhi.
Australia, England and Wales were placed in the same pool at the 2015 World Cup, which means one of the traditional powers will not make it to the knockout round. Emma Stoney reports from Wellington on rugby.
Josep Guardiola, the former coach of Barcelona, is proving a miserable failure in his attempt to be the forgotten man of sports. Rob Hughes on soccer.
