After the gold rush

It hasn’t been a good year for the black and gold.

A year on, cold beer is flowing again at the popular Leopold Cafe. Lovers stroll the arc of Marine Drive, taking in the sultry sulfuric air of the Arabian Sea. And the main train terminus is as busy as it appeared in “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Militants attacked the office of a humanitarian organization in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing five people, police said.

To offset carbon dioxide, a Japanese airline is asking its passengers to go to the toilet before boarding.

Pirates seized a North Korean-flagged cargo ship Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden, a European Union anti-piracy task force said.

In the cash-rich Gulf, where eye-catching, money-is-no-object architecture designed by the world’s “starchitects” has become the norm.

General Motors’ deal to sell its Hummer brand to a Chinese automaker fell through Wednesday and the company said it now plans to shut down the brand.

A jury in Manhattan found the son of Brooke Astor and one of his lawyers guilty Thursday of scheming to bilk millions of dollars from the late philanthropist’s estate.

Martial law is declared in the Philippines’ southern province of Maguindanao, where 57 people were killed last week, an army spokesman tells CNN.

If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they’ll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank. It also turns out that the vast headaches created by Vista were just what the PC industry needed to improve their cooperation.

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The Mexican government on Sunday dissolved the company that supplies power to the capital and four central states because of the utility’s unsustainable financial position, Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont said.

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has won his libel case against a Russian broadcaster in London, his spokeswoman told CNN on Wednesday.

It will take NATO-led military forces “another 25 to 30 days to secure that which needs to be secured” in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, and a further three months after that to be sure insurgents are being kept out of the area, British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter said Thursday.

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