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According to a report in Foreign Policy, sales of the Nano automobile in India have been disappointing.  Launched with great fanfare just two years ago and billed as the “world's cheapest car”, the Nano has been equal parts savvy marketing campaign and act of social responsibility on the part of its creator, Tata Motors.  A marked transition has been underway in Indian society as the population becomes more affluent and more urban.  Unfortunately, the infrastructure of most Indian cities has not been able to keep up;

With control of his nation reduced to a handful of loyalist redoubts, there is a palpable sense of joy in Western capitals - and an equal sense of relief at NATO headquarters in Brussels that the seemingly moribund alliance was actually able to achieve something - over the impending end of the Moammar Gadhafi era in Libya. Countries around the world have been quick to recognize the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) as the “legitimate” government of Libya. Countries around the world, that is, except for the continent of Africa, where leaders have been far less willing to embrace the rebels or to toss aside Gadhafi.

After listening to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his recent swing though the United States I can only assume that Bibi just doesn't realize it's 2011.  How else to explain his repeated comments, including his insulting dressing down of President Barack Obama at the White House, explaining why Israel cannot return to their 1967 borders because Israel would then lack the “strategic depth” to defend itself.  Strategic depth?  Why?

It was one of those simple, glad-handing moments that national leaders find their days filled with; last Friday Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into a prototype for Russia's first domestically-designed and built hybrid car along with billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who financed the construction of the “Yo-mobile,” for a drive from Putin's dacha (vacation home) to President Dmitry Medvedev's nearby compound.

Simon Griffiths graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce. His love of problem solving, innovation and markets led him to work as an electrical engineer for ExxonMobil, then as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley before realising neither of these jobs appealed to him.

There was an announcement quietly made in mid-December that could finally be the game-changer needed to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan.  The announcement wasn't made by Barack Obama or General David Petraeus and didn't involve sending more troops into the battlefield; rather it was made by a bank and involved a pipeline.

One of the truths of human history is that mankind has a tendency to go to war for some pretty stupid reasons; my personal favorite was the 17^th century's War of Jenkins' Ear, though in the 19^th century the United States and Canada nearly went to war over a pig, which probably would have trumped the unfortunate Mr.

Recent news from the Arctic is that Greenpeace tried to block the drilling of a prospect well off the coast of Greenland, much to the chagrin of Cairn Energy Plc, the company who holds the lease for oil and gas concessions along that portion of the Greenlandic shore. The Arctic is widely believed to be the last, great unexplored region where resources like oil and natural gas, along with a host of precious metals, will be found in any significant concentrations, and thanks to global c