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December 30, 2009 14:59
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GlobalPost invites you to listen to "This Year with Global Post," a special radio report in partnership with WGBH-Boston on how our correspondents have covered the big stories of 2009. I am hosting the radio show and will be talking with our correspondents around the world about the global economic crisis, the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the many challenges that lie ahead in 2010 and beyond. The show will air on the PBS flagship WGBH (89.7 FM) in Boston at noon on Thursday, Dec. 31. And will be rebroadcast on WGBH on Sunday at 8 p.m.

Free lunch in Bangalore (and elsewhere across India)

Saritha RaiMarch 16, 2010 06:55Updated May 30, 2010 13:17
BANGALORE, India — It is just past noon and the lunch gong has sounded. As he waits in line with other hungry children, a smile lurks on the face of 8-year-old Dinesh, a student at the Government Composite School in Agara, a village on the fringes of Bangalore. When his turn comes, Dinesh holds out his plate for a steaming mound of rice and several ladlefuls of piping hot sambhar, spicy curry with lentils and vegetables. He eats quickly, savoring the curried rice and saving the tender chickpeas for the very end of the meal.

Copenhagen: Inside the circus

December 15, 2009 19:02Updated May 30, 2010 13:16
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — In Copenhagen these days you can meet princes, presidents and Amazonian panther women. One moment you can listen to New York's Republican mayor extolling the virtues of wind farms and bike paths, the next chat with a Japanese girl dressed as polar bear, or be urged to save one of Australian's much-loved marsupials by joining the Biosphere Bandicoot Buddies.

Helping Americans escape domestic violence abroad

December 8, 2009 08:03Updated May 30, 2010 13:15
PARIS, France — Richard Branson, Yoko Ono and Doris Buffet are among the supporters of an organization that helps rescue Americans from domestic abuse they suffer while abroad. The group’s founder, Paula Lucas, knows personally the predicament of U.S. citizens in such situations. There were few resources available when she was trying to flee an abusive husband in the United Arab Emirates in the late 1990s.

Will a robot be the next great humanitarian?

January 6, 2010 07:43Updated May 30, 2010 13:15
GENEVA, Switzerland — Robert Richardson has a vision of the future: A long line of trucks wends its way through dangerous territory to bring critically needed supplies to a population in desperate need. What makes these trucks different is that they are guided by robots instead of human drivers.

Swiss vote to ban new minarets on mosques

November 29, 2009 13:55
The passage of a referendum banning the construction of new minarets for mosques in Switzerland seems to have caught just about everyone, including the Swiss government, by surprise.

China's proposal on climate change

November 28, 2009 06:47
 GENEVA — Hardly anyone doubts that working out an agreement on fixed reductions for greenhouse gas emissions will be the key issue at the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen. The problem is that while industrialized countries have relatively stable economies that make it fairly easy to predict CO2 emissions from one year to the next, the developing world, and especially China and India, are racing to catch up.

Greener than Oz

Daniel Grushkin December 1, 2009 14:10Updated May 30, 2010 13:14
 It was an unlikely conference room, a barren hill 150 kilometers southeast of Mumbai. But that’s where the three partners met: financiers from Bharat Forge, the world’s largest chassis components manufacturer; planners from HOK, a major international design firm; and a group of biologists from the Biomimicry Guild, a consulting group that looks to biological engineering for design solutions.  

Japan’s downward spiral

Gavin Blair November 16, 2009 19:17Updated May 30, 2010 13:14
TOKYO – For at least a quarter century Japan has taken great pride that its post-war economic miracle created a nation of middle-class people. Polls typically found that 80 to 90 percent of Japanese identified themselves as middle-income.
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