NEWS
| South Africa creates ‘World Cup courts’ |
| JOHANNESBURG - South Africa plans to create special courts dedicated to handling crimes committed during the World Cup, aiming to speed up the judicial process, especially for cases involving foreigners. |
| Cleaning up India’s dirty money |
| MUMBAI - Bargaining is a way of life in India. Even the smallest transactions are open for negotiation, but all too often the argument rests not on the quantity to be paid, but the quality of the cash. |
| Egypt, Algeria soccer tiff grows |
| CAIRO — Egypt recalled its ambassador to Algeria for consultations as part of a growing diplomatic row caused by a bitter soccer rivalry between the two Arab nations that has sparked violence among fans. |
| One year after the Mumbai terror attack |
| MUMBAI- The general manager of Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, Karambir Singh Kang, still works at the place where his wife and two children were killed. |
| Great Barrier Reef survival 'requires 25pct CO2 cut' |
| Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has only a 50 percent chance of survival if global CO2 emissions are not reduced at least 25 percent by 2020, a coalition of Australia’s top reef and climate scientists said on Tuesday. |
| 70 pc of Americans see China as economic threat |
| WASHINGTON - A clear majority of Americans see China as an economic threat, a poll showed Monday, as Barack Obama sought to bolster relations on his first trip to Beijing and Shanghai as president. |
| UN ‘Hunger Summit’ opens in Rome |
| ROME - A UN summit on the plight of the planet’s one billion hungry opens here Monday, with activists warning it risks being a waste of time as leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations are to be conspicuous by their absence. |
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