NEWS Millions of Chinese sacrifice heavily for their children’s education, but as college graduates saturate a slowing job market, the security they seek is increasingly elusive. Keith Bradsher reports from Hanjing, China.
A plan by President Obama for an overhaul of the immigration system would put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship that could begin after about eight years and would require them to go to the back of the line behind legal applicants, according to a draft of the legislation that the White House has circulated in the administration. Michael D. Shear and Julia Preston report.
An epidemic of suicides among the elderly is the counterpoint to Soth Korea’s runaway economic success, which has worn away at the Confucian social contract that formed the bedrock of culture for centuries. Choe Sang-Hun reports from Seoul.
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada. John M. Broder, Clifford Krauss and Ian Austen report.
Militants’ infiltration into freed areas of Mali, in a string of neighboring village! s along the Niger River, is what enabled last Sunday’s attack in the heart of Gao, a town of about 86,000. Peter Tinti reports from Gao, Mali, and Adam Nossiter from Dakar, Senegal.
Pope Benedict XVI asked the tens of thousands of people who had flocked to St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for one of his last public appearances to pray for him and his successor. Elisabetta Povoledo reports from Vatican City.
Nearly a year after word leaked about an S.E.C. investigation into possible corrupt practices in the China film trade, there is a still a chill over dealings between Hollywood and China. Michael Cieply reports from Los Angeles.
Publishers in France say they have struck an agreement with Google on the use of their content online. Their counterparts elsewhere in Europe, however, say the French gave in too easily. Eric Pfanner reports from Paris.
EDUCATION Issues involving online courses were the subject at a conference at the University of London, which has been in the distance-learning business since 1858. D.D. Guttenplan reports from London.
! FASHIONMary Katrantzou’s show was one of those heart-stopping moments when fashion goes beyond the commercial or the attractive to embrace art. Suzy Menkes reviews the shows in London.
ARTS Which movies in 2012 had the best-designed titles Alice Rawsthorn writes from London.
SPORTS Retroactive has become the new active in this polluted, convoluted sports era, in which you can too rarely be sure whether the race or game or shot-put contest you just watched was legitimate. Christopher Clarey repors.
Arsenal was eliminated from the English F.A. Cup in its own stadium against a second-division side, the first time that has happened since Arsène Wenger took over the team in 1996. Rob Hughes on soccer.
