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PUBLIC RELATIONS Selling the Saudis in a 'Favorable' Light Concerned about 'tracking polls' showing that its 'favorable' rating with the American public has yet to climb back to pre-9-11 levels, [...]

Ooh, that Hamid. he's such a dish. At Milan's menswear fashion show last week, the buzz was all Afghanistan--not guns but the buttery- smooth look of the war-torn country's new [...]

Behold, the end of the world is nigh! Or at least, Pat Buchanan seems to think so. In his latest book, 'Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant [...]

All it took was a pretzel. After he choked on one and fainted early last week, President George W. Bush gave the world its first chance to laugh at him [...]

In the past year, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has cut interest rates 11 times, from 6.5 percent to 1.75 percent--yet the latest numbers from 2001 are [...]

It only takes one to tango. At least, according to one of Nigeria's strictest Sharia courts. In October 2000, 35-year-old Safiya Hussaini was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery [...]

Last year, U.S. trade Representative Robert Zoellick warned the European Union that if it imposed sanctions in the ongoing EU-U.S. tax dispute, it would be the equivalent of detonating a [...]

Investigators looking into Al Qaeda's global network now appear to be making breakthroughs. U.S. officials confirm that key leads have come from one Osama bin Laden aide in U.S. custody: [...]

The Cayman Islands, the Cote d'Azur, Beverly Hills... Scotland? The past two years have seen the frosty northern nation rise to new ranks as a celebrity hot spot. Bonnie Prince [...]

Who has integrated best into the global economy? The A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index report for 2000 amounts to a sort of quiz on interaction with the world, with [...]

Lexicographers, take note. Despite a Yale degree, the 'leader of the free world' still pronounces nuclear 'nuke-yu-ler.' Which poses a question: when President George W. Bush told Russian President Vladimir [...]

In the war on terror, President George W. Bush repeated last week, other nations are 'with us or against us.' But not everybody is heeding the warning. Belarus and Iran [...]

What's the connection between shoebomber Richard Reid and Al Qaeda? One possibility: suspected '20th hijacker' Zacarias Moussaoui. Investigators suspect Moussaoui may have introduced Reid to members of a terrorist cell [...]

'The Fellowship Of The Ring,' we hoped, would provide an escape from the reality of the war on terror. So why do journalists insist on drawing allusions between the fantastical [...]

Before, you could just blame the weather, and the buck stopped there. No longer. Rio de Janeiro weather forecaster Luiz Carlos Austin predicted driving rains for New Year's Eve, just [...]

Finally, one can travel through Europe without the fuss of converting currencies and needing a calculator to work out price differences between countries. But the introduction of the euro brings [...]

What's in a number? A lot, say FBI investigators who have linked three of Osama bin Laden's deadliest attacks, including September 11, to a single telephone number in Yemen. The [...]

Biotech rivals bickered over a momentous milestone last week: the first cloned pigs genetically engineered to keep their organs from being rejected by human transplant recipients. Immerge BioTherapeutics Inc. had [...]

On Jan. 11, Typhoon 'Dawn' will pummel the imaginary island of Parangdo. Rain and wind will destroy houses and roads, plunging the state into anarchy. Nearly 100,000 refugees will flee [...]

Five presidents in two weeks. Can the latest, Eduardo Duhalde, save Argentina from further collapse? Duhalde launched his rescue effort last Friday by declaring a devaluation of the peso, tentatively [...]

If you have to shoot yourself in the foot, should it be the right or the left? Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced that Hobbesian choice last week. Would he [...]

The 'Naked Cowboy' actually wears cowboy boots and briefs--but he still stops traffic in New York's Times Square. Aspiring country singer, bodybuilder and patriot John Robert Burck performs his brand [...]

Argentina made a crucial debt payment last week, avoiding (for now) a plunge into the abyss. But Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo's days may be numbered. He's managed to alienate everyone [...]

The Irish like to keep it in the mattress. The Germans stash it in Luxembourg bank accounts. The Spaniards, some say, hide it in the freezer. They call it dinero [...]

President George W. Bush announced last week that the United States would withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile treaty in six months, but he emerged unscathed politically. With the war on [...]

So much for the Wild, Wild West of the East. A wave of government-imposed morality has swept through Bangkok since last summer, when Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra launched a [...]

Afghanistan's national airline, Ariana, is back in the air. At least its two surviving planes are. The fleet was largely destroyed by U.S. airstrikes, but the show goes on. A [...]

The crowd at the bar might belong to any of London's new-wave nightspots. But this is ArRum, an Islamic club that recently opened in London's hip Clerkenwell district. The name [...]

It seems we're not alone in the universe, especially when it comes to big problems. Researchers say that Mars, too, may be a victim of global warming. The planet's solid [...]

The world has certainly changed. Not because the war in Afghanistan is all but over and the forces of terror are on the run, although that may be part of [...]

In most countries, last week's murder of Marika de Klerk would seem to represent only a random act of violence. For South Africans, it underscored a wider point: with 21,000 [...]

High hopes for a breakthrough in the 27-year-old Cyprus conflict emerged from last week's meeting between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktas. Denktas, 77, invited [...]

The Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini has become a fashion trend among a new generation of Italians. T shirts, baseball caps and calendars with his name or likeness are selling [...]

Since the terror attacks, even a hobby can get you arrested. In early November, 12 Britons and two Dutch tourists found that out while vacationing in Greece. They were 'plane-spotting,' [...]

Abu Qatadah, dubbed Osama bin Laden's 'European ambassador' by the press, didn't live like a diplomat, sharing a shabby house in London with his wife and four children. He had [...]

The first target of the September 11 reprisals was Osama bin Laden, and the world pretty much agreed. Next came the Taliban, making some allies restless. Now Iraq may come [...]

Investigators probing the background to the September 11 attacks think they know how a lot of money made its way to two hijack-team leaders. But finding out who put up [...]

On Saturday, Japanese Crown Princess Masako gave birth to a new member of the world's oldest imperial lineage--a healthy, 3.1 kilogram... girl. Because of her gender, the baby can't inherit [...]

TECHNOLOGY Chip Chemistry When it comes to computer chips, smaller means cheaper, faster and better. One day engineers expect to reach the limit on how small they can make chips, [...]

He was the missile-slinging cowboy, a 'cartoon oilman belching out carbon fumes,' as London's Guardian put it. But since Sept. 11 George W. Bush has grown. The boy president has [...]

Crusades? After the pope recently supported measures to 'bring those responsible [for Sept. 11] to justice' and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi decreed that the West is 'superior to Islam,' Italians [...]

How do accountants respond to crises? Like accountants, obviously. Though unusual, the WTC attack was nothing 'extraordinary,' the Financial Accounting Standards Board ruled last week. That's a big issue for [...]

In 1995, while preparing his trial defense for Timothy McVeigh, lead counsel Stephen Jones tried to come up with alternative suspects. Osama bin Laden was one, prompting Jones to joke, [...]

Still King As if Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri didn't have enough problems. While she was out of the country last month trying to entice wary foreign investors, militant Muslims at [...]

Name the first tourist in space!' Nineteen-year-old Juan Pablo Nigita, from Argentina, did--identifying U.S. businessman Dennis Tito. Nigita's prize from his Internet provider: a trip to... you guessed it. But [...]

The Taliban has relaxed rules on having women wear the all-covering burqa, especially near Afghanistan's borders. A victory for modernism? Nah. The Taliban is moving to prevent another Yvonne Ridley, [...]

Who says a museum has to be about art? With worldwide museum attendance higher in the past decade than ever, curators are realizing they don't need a Picasso to bring [...]

We knew things were bad before Sept. 11--and worse after. The latest U.S. figures for last month showed the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in a decade; in addition, shipments [...]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is speaking out about a war against Afghanistan in its new ad (below), to be published in U.S. magazines this month. Wait [...]

For the past two weeks, it's been all bin Laden, all the time. He diverted the attention of the world's most outspoken media and critics, allowing several scandal-ridden politicians around [...]