Branksome

Video: Pay What (You Think) It's Worth

A restaurant in the south of England has taken the radical step of allowing customers to pay what they wish for their food. Can it possibly work?

New Delhi

Who's Got the Power?

Another brutal summer is only months away, prompting a surge in demand for household solutions to back up electricity supplies

Dublin

Ireland's Sunni-Shi'ite Divide

Iraqi immigrants are making new homes in Ireland, but sectarian animosities have traveled with them

Mexico City

A Vodka Tonic for Mexico's Loss?

Absolut sparks a furor with an ad invoking Mexico's claim to much of the western United States. But Mexicans are happier to earn dollars, rather than pesos there

Huaxi

The Richest Reds in China

How the comrades in one rural village took to heart Deng Xiaoping's exhortation "let some people get rich first"

Playas

The Town That Terror Saved

In the southwestern corner of New Mexico, a tiny town plays the role of terrorist haven

Cape Town

South Africa's Crime Wave — in Bookstores

Where 52 murders and 144 rapes are committed each day, crime fiction becomes a vehicle for exploring a society in crisis

Shanghai

Sole Train

Dazzled by eastern promise, the house of Ferragamo brings its 80th anniversary cavalcade to Shanghai

Bangkok

The $300,000 Dinner

In the name of "emotional tourism," a Thai hotel invites 50 people to a $300,000 dinner. But before that, the guests must see how the other half lives

Port of Spain

On the Menu: A National Treasure

Trinidadians celebrate the scarlet ibis as their national bird, but heavy poaching suggests that many are just as happy to enjoy it in a curry

Banda Aceh

Emerging from the Jaws of Despair

The tsunami took everything Hidayat Ali held dear, but he picked himself up and started over

Ometepe

Disaster in a Tourist Mecca. Actors Wanted

A shipwreck, a volcano, corrupt officials and more were all part of the week's entertainment at a Nicaraguan "oasis of peace"

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