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A new beginning?
When the most high-profile corporate war in recent Indian business history shows signs of ending there ought to be a sense of relief all round. The five-year-old dispute between the Ambani brothers with its origins in “ownership ...

State elections, wider effects
The state assembly elections held recently in Germany's most populous province, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), have been unusually important. The ruling coalition, led by Jürgen Rüttgers and comprising the Christian Democratic Union ...

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Contrasting faces of jihadi terror
By Anita Joshua

The arrest of Faisal Shahzad challenged the argument that youngsters take to terrorism out of desperation and deprivation.

Op-Ed

The high cost of some cheap weddings
In village after village of crisis-hit Vidarbha region you can find many girls aged 25 or more unmarried because their parents can't afford it. This is a major source of tension in the community.

OUT OF LONDON

Cameron's Cabinet of millionaires
In these austere times, Prime Minister Cameron and his Cabinet — collectively worth about £50 million — cannot afford to be seen as too smug about their wealth.

Europe weighs new tracks to cut carbon
As cap and trade falls short of its goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

Martian probe Phoenix defunct: NASA
NASA has declared the U.S. Mars lander Phoenix defunct, writing it off as a victim of the red planet's icy winter after numerous unsuccessful attempts to communicate with it. NASA's Odyssey orbiter passed over the Phoenix landing site 61 ...

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Corrections and Clarifications
* * The first paragraph of a report “Masterpieces stolen from Paris museum” (May 21, 2010) said that the five paintings were valued at over €500 million. A reader said that the figure should have been €100 million ...

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