By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 29, 2013 (with the original video available)

NEW DELHI — If you've imagined yourself rolling in dough, you might think twice before acting on that dream, at least if you're an Indian politician.

By Mark Landler and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, Oct. 29/30, 2013

By Bill Keller (former Executive Editor of the New York Times, 2003-11,) New York Times, Oct. 27, 2013

Police investigating incident at Forbidden City in which five people died say they are seeking two Muslim Uighur suspects

Agencies in Beijing, theguardian.com, 29 Oct. 2013

Police investigating Monday's car crash at Beijing's Forbidden City are searching for information on two suspects from the Muslim Uighur minority. A day after a car ploughed through a crowd, crashed and burst into flames, killing five people and injuring 38, government sources have said the "major incident" may have been a suicide attack.

By Mark Landler, New York Times, Oct. 26/27, 2013

By Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct. 25, 2013

(Updates with White House response, in paragraph 12)

By Steve Pearlstein, Wonkblog @ washingtonpost.com, Oct. 26, 2013

It was a humbling experience for the chief executive of the world’s most valuable company. Hauled before a Senate panel, Apple’s Tim Cook had to explain how an American company whose American engineers had created the iPhone and the iPad was able to avoid paying any taxes on billions of dollars in profits generated by those products — not to United States, not to any country. The only defense the Cook could conjure up for Apple “stateless” income was that it was all perfectly legal.

By Liam Stack, The Lede @ nytimes.com, Oct. 25, 2013

[....] expressions of what Ms. Abdel Aziz called “Sisi-mania” can be found all over Cairo, according to a piece written by Ursula Lindsey, a writer based in the Egyptian capital, for an opinion blog published in The Times.

People both come from elsewhere to use it and leave the country for alternatives, go figure!

By Sara Boseley, health editor, The Guardian, 24 Oct., 2013

By Matt Clinch, CNBC, Oct. 25, 2013

Companies should start planning for Iran, analysts say, as the slow thawing of diplomatic relations with the country could open the door to foreign investment [....]

Matthew Spivack, practice leader at emerging market advisory firm Frontier Strategy Group told CNBC that investors now need to start working a contingency plan for when, and if, sanctions are rolled back.

By Adam Nossiter, New York Times, October 20/21, 2013

BENISHEIK, Nigeria —[....] Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamist insurgent movement, remains a deadly threat in the countryside [....] But about 40 miles away in Maiduguri, the sprawling state capital from where the militant group emerged, Boko Haram has been largely defeated for now, according to officials, activists and residents — a remarkable turnaround that has brought thousands of people back to the streets [....]

Merkel the latest to rebuke Washington over NSA spying while US relationships in the Middle East are also unravelling

By Dan Roberts and Paul Lewis in Washington, theguardian.com, 24 Oct., 2013

International anger over US government surveillance has combined with a backlash against its current Middle East policy to leave President Obama increasingly isolated from many of his key foreign allies, according to diplomats in Washington [....]

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Medics are saying saturated fat may not be the devil incarnate. Just don't expect an apology from low-fat food purveyors
By Joanna Blythman, Comment is Free @ theguardian.com, 23 Oct., 2013

Tsarnaev's attorneys trying to access to records implicating elder brother Tamerlan in unsolved triple killing in 2011
Associated Press, 23 Oct., 2013

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother Tamerlan, legal experts say.

By Patrick Kingsley in Cairo, theguardian.com, 21 Oct., 2013

Gunmen shot dead at least four Egyptians outside a Coptic Christian church on the edge of Cairo on Sunday evening as worshippers left the building after a wedding, state media reported. Two adults and two girls aged eight and 12 were killed, and at least 12 others injured, after the gunmen sprayed bullets seemingly at random.

Why the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are increasingly at odds.
By Colum Lynch, ForeignPolicy.com, Oct. 22, 2013

When Saudi Arabia rejected its U.N. Security Council seat on Friday, the move caught nearly everyone off-guard. In retrospect, it shouldn't have.

By Stephen S. Hall, New York Magazine, Oct. 20 online & Oct. 28 issue cover story

The article investigates prices like these

Avastin, $5,000/month; Zaltrap, $11,000/month; Yervoy, $39,000/month; Provenge, $93,000/course of treatment; Erbitux, $8,400/month; Gleevec, $92,000/year; Tasigna, $115,000/year; Sprycel, $123,000/year.

how they got that way, how some oncologists are finally ganging up to protest against them, how this has ultimately been caused by Medicare's approval process, and how other countries have handled it differently.

By Rajeev Deshpande, TNN, Oct 22, 2013

MOSCOW: In a strong signal to Pakistan on the need to stamp out terror launched from its soil and to desist from attempts to re-install an unreformed Taliban in Afghanistan, India and Russia on Monday said states abetting terrorism were as guilty as terrorist organizations.

By Cora Currier, Pro Publica, Oct. 14, 2013

The United States is loosening controls over military exports, in a shift that former U.S. officials and human rights advocates say could increase the flow of American-made military parts to the world’s conflicts and make it harder to enforce arms sanctions.