News stories by Sanjay Suri, page 3

Amnesty International is calling on the G20 to lead the world out of a crisis in justice, after the band of major industrialised and emerging nations has led a fair bit of the world out of economic recession, to some extent.

The black, curvy London cab is so much more than a just taxi. It is an icon without which the picture of London can never be complete.

The Middle East leads the world in executions after China, says an annual Amnesty International report released Tuesday.

A high-level meeting in London of political and business leaders will consider this week ways of raising 100 billion dollars to fight climate change. And yet another one in Washington will search for ways of finding, and funding, more three-dollar stoves around the world.

Most of these women had never known what it is to have the dollar a day everyone speaks of. And last year, they were seen as good enough between them to be lent a billion and a half dollars.

The problem now, almost, is to find a way to relive the peak of that economic crisis of September 2008. The current move back to business of old — on the face of it anyhow — could well turn out to be a longer-running difficulty than the crisis it supposedly left behind. A difficulty far greater for women than for men.

'Passport Please.' That's what everyone thought they'd ask if you queued up at that exclusive new ice cream shop in one of those smart new malls of fashionable south Delhi.

The European Union is intercepting big shipments of medicines on their way to poorer countries, according to a new report published Tuesday.

Major developing countries are again preparing to stand together on critical issues at the G20 heads of government meeting in Pittsburgh Sep 24-25. But Southern solidarity may need to move beyond the strategic common front presented at such summits to include a strengthening of continuing ties.

Too early yet to call it a victory for anti-nuclear lobbyists, but the British government decision this week to put off an upgrade of its Trident nuclear system is at least denial of immediate victory to those who want newer nuclear weapons.