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- European Ministers Plot Cure For Financial Crisis Finance ministers from the 27 European Union countries meet in Luxembourg Tuesday to consider what, if anything, their governments can do together to stop the spreading financial crisis. Individual European governments disagree over what should be done.
- Nano Production Hits A Pothole In West Bengal The Nano, which is billed as the world's cheapest car, was supposed to roll off an Indian production line this month. But that hit a snag when Tata Motors announced it had to build the car somewhere else. The company closed the new plant in the state of West Bengal following violent protests.
- Europe Not United Over How To Resolve Crisis European governments are scrambling to shore up their banks. The governments promised to work together to solve the financial crisis, but so far, they have acted separately. Philip Coggan, a columnist for the Financial Times, talks with Ari Shapiro about the steps European officials are taking to reassure investors, and whether it is working.
- New Army Field Manual Is Road Map To Stabilization The Army has a new operations manual that emphasizes nation-building over conventional warfare. The Stability Operations Field Manual was put together at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the home of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center. The new doctrine will drive Army resources, organization and training for many years to come.
- Chicago Professor Shares In Nobel Prize In Physics A University of Chicago professor won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics Monday. Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. citizen, shares the prize with two Japanese scientists. Nambu gets half the prize for the discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
- Afghan Amputees Avoid Begging With Bike Service Most of the tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan who have lost legs to land mines have no way to make a living other than begging. But one group has come up with another way to feed its families: It operates a bicycle messenger service in Kabul.
- Europe Works To Stem Banking Crisis More European governments are following Germany's lead by offering blanket deposit guarantees to savers in a frantic effort to calm fears among investors over the worst financial crisis in 80 years. Sweden became the latest to act.
- In Pakistan, Some Seek Spy Agency Reform U.S. officials are urging Pakistan to reform its Inter Services Intelligence spy agency. Pakistanis don't like taking orders from the U.S., but there are those who agree the ISI needs reforming. Recently the new prime minister attempted this, but he got cold feet.
- Nobel Panel Decides Against U.S. HIV Discovery The 2008 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine went in part to two French researchers for discovering the virus that causes AIDS. The award was not shared by American Robert Gallo, who has also claimed a role in the discovery of HIV. Additionally, a German scientist got the prize for establishing the cause of most cervical cancers.
- E.U. Governments Guaranteeing Bank Deposits Share prices dropped on the European markets in response to the growing financial crisis Monday. A number of European governments are guaranteeing bank deposits, following a trend set by Ireland last week.
- Is The U.S. Still On Top? Cleverly packaged U.S. subprime mortgages have contaminated economies around the world. European countries were among the first to realize that hundreds of billions of dollars in toxic mortgage securities were woven into their assets. Will the United States' place in the global economy survive?
- Op-Ed: Credit Crisis More Damaging Than Sept. 11 Author David Rothkopf explains why he believes the current financial crisis may have "greater and more lasting ramifications" than the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. His op-ed, "9/11 Was Big. This Is Bigger," appeared Sunday in The Washington Post.
- Is America 'Too Insular' For A Literary Nobel? Horace Engdahl, a Nobel Prize official, commented on Wednesday that the United States is "too isolated" and "too insular" to generate literary Nobel laureates. He said Europe remains the "center of the literary world."
- Christian Security Forces Growing Stronger In Iraq The security forces, organized through local churches, are manning checkpoints in Iraq and working with police. The mystery of where their funding comes from seems to center on a media-shy and reclusive political figure.
- Financial Turmoil Deepening In Europe The financial turmoil shaking Wall Street is also taking a toll in Europe, where authorities moved to assure bank depositors that their money was safe, and a bailout was planned for a large German lender. European leaders are struggling to deliver a unified response to the crisis.
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