NEWS The collapse of a building in Bangladesh, the Rana Plaza, is considered the deadliest accident in the history of the garment industry, having claimed at least 377 lives. Jim Yardley reports from Savar, Bangladesh.
The Central Intelligence Agency has long been known to support some relatives and close aides of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. But the new accounts of off-the-books cash delivered directly to his office show payments on a vaster scale, and with a far greater impact on everyday governing. Matthew Rosenberg reports from Kabul.
To select the cabinet that he presented Saturday to President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy, Prime Minister Enrico Letta, the new head of government, relied on what are widely acknowledged as his consummate skills: an ability to negotiate and a gift for building bridges, even between forces that barely speak to each other. By all accounts, his new post will sorely test these talents. Elisabetta Povoledo reports from Rome.
EDUCATION The growth of international schools with English-language curriculum and a mostly expatriate teaching staff began to take off in the 1950s. Now there are 6,400 international schools in the world â€" up 153 percent from 12 years ago â€" that employ 300,000 full-time teaching staff members, and the number is growing. Ginanne Brownell reports from London.
ARTS A struggle â€" and also a race â€" pits the forces of collapse against the halting emergence of a new urban class in Cairo, born in the aftermath of the revolution. Egyptians have long been experts at fending for themselves in a top-down system where the president ruled by fiat and the government was unaccountable. But now they must improvise as never before. Michael Kimmelman writes from Cairo.
Hanging in the sumptuous Great Nave of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are nearly 1,500 spindly strips of black plastic slotted together to form a gigantic screen. Each one resembles a short strand of seaweed, which is why its designers, the brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, named it Algue, the French word for seaweed. Alice Rawsthorn on design.
After the top two Spanish soccer teams were soundly beaten on the road by the best German teams last week, the Champions League matches will switch to Spanish soil, offering a chance for retribution. Rob Hughes reports.
