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| Compiled on October 16, 2013, 07:02 PM CET |
| EMERGING CHALLENGES What's In Store for the New Global Powers China, India and Brazil are taking the global economy by storm, becoming more politically confident on their way. But even as they form a front against the West, they will have to tackle slower growth and major domestic problems that their newly prosperous citizens are no longer willing to tolerate. |
| RUSSIAN OPPOSITION Navalny's Suspended Sentence Reveals Rifts Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger and leader of the Russian opposition, won't be going to jail after all. But the court's decision to suspend his sentence in the wake of his politically motivated trial doesn't mean Putin is suddenly on his side. |
| ETHICAL FARMING Germany Ponders the Super Chicken Every year, millions of male chicks are discarded because of the demands of industrial chicken farming. Now a German company has engineered a new breed that could solve the problem -- but it comes with drawbacks of its own. |
| REST IN IGNOMINY Clashes Disrupt Funeral for Nazi War Criminal Violent clashes erupted on Tuesday between anti-Fascist protesters and neo-Nazis outside Rome when a small ultra-conservative Catholic sect tried to hold a funeral for recently deceased Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke. Italian officials say they may send the body to Germany. |
| REFLECTIONS Life as a Pakistani-German Journalist in Islamabad A SPIEGEL journalist of Pakistani-German descent recently left Islamabad after four years of reporting there. In an essay, he describes life between two cultures and the conflicts his background often created for him as a foreign correspondent in Pakistan. |
| COALITION TALKS Greens Reject Alliance with Conservatives After a long night of talks on Tuesday night, Germany's Greens have ruled out forming a governing coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives. Now her only option is to allign herself with the center-left Social Democrats. |
| PICTURE THIS Eid Mubarak |
