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City guide: Places to stay

From the Lux Pod in London to Home in Buenos Aires, here's a round-up of some of the best hotels and B&Bs

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
Sarkozy Calls for Revamping of Capitalist System

BRUSSELS, Oct. 16 -- European leaders on Thursday urged that a pending international summit carry out an urgent overhaul of the world's financial architecture and impose new controls on freewheeling bankers and traders. U.S. officials pledged that all good ideas would get an airing but hinted of...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-16-2008
G-8 Nations Plan Summit On Global Financial Rules

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 -- The Group of Eight major industrialized nations announced Wednesday that they will convene a summit to plan changes in the regulation and structure of the world financial industry in hopes of heading off future economic turmoil.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-15-2008
Global Markets Fall Despite Reassurances

BERLIN, Oct. 10 -- Fear seized investors around the world Friday as stock markets dropped to levels not broached for several years. National leaders tried to intervene with reassurances and stopgap measures, to no avail.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-10-2008
Global Bankers Anxiously Watch U.S.

BERLIN, Sept. 30 -- Central bankers and elected leaders around the world acknowledged Tuesday that they lacked a comprehensive strategy to protect their countries from the global financial crisis and were as dependent as ever on Washington to come up with a solution.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-30-2008
U.S. Joins G-8 Plan To Halve Emissions

RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9 -- The United States for the first time joined the major industrialized countries Tuesday in committing to try to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. President Bush immediately began promoting the plan with skeptical developing country leaders who would be crucial to its.....

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-08-2008
As Summit Approaches, G-8 Weighs Expansion

TOKYO -- The Group of Eight, holding its summit in Japan starting Monday, has always been a club for the world's biggest economies. Now a growing chorus is saying it's time that the clubhouse doors swing open to some newcomers.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 07-04-2008
Scant Aid Reaching Burma's Delta

BANGKOK, May 7 -- Small quantities of drinking water, food, tents and other vital supplies reached Burma's devastated Irrawaddy Delta region Wednesday, as bodies floated uncollected in swollen rivers and sea-flooded rice paddies five days after a cyclone roared through.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 05-07-2008
The New Economics of Hunger

The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 04-26-2008
Rise in Price Was a Sign of Trouble

The price of the Chinese-produced main ingredient used to make the blood thinner heparin doubled last year, just four months before hundreds of American patients began having severe and sometimes fatal allergic reactions to the medication, according to a report from an authoritative drug information...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 04-12-2008

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