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By Raymond Colitt Pedro Ferreira spends his days and nights in a cramped, steamy tunnel under the damp earth of the Amazon rain forest, chipping away at a wall of rock glittering

By Gordon Bell Investors fear a shift in the policies that have fuelled South Africa's longest period of economic growth despite expectations that next week's election will leave the political landscape unchanged.

By Andrew Marshall The colour of the T-shirts worn by the mobs of protesters paralysing Thai politics may change from time to time, but everything else about the country's damaging deadlock remains

By Jasmin Melvin As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers. "Our

By Matthias Williams Ram Babu Manjhi is weak with hunger as he stumbles across a field to an irrigation ditch he's been digging for a month in eastern India. Under a flagship

By Eva Kuehnen It has neither train station nor cinema, but this Bavarian town has not been bypassed by globalisation. Ambition and leverage have brought it to its deepest crisis since World

By Andrew Hay Mari Cruz keeps her designer sunglasses perched in her hair as she lunches on pork and vegetables from a blue plastic tray in the first municipal soup kitchen Spain

By Steve Holland Nearly five months after being swamped by Barack Obama's electoral tidal wave, Republicans are struggling to find their footing against a popular president whose Democrats control Washington. The Republican

By Jim Loney Rust pokes through the peeling paint on the railings, pest control has been curtailed and the palm trees are no longer being fertilized at the 1940s-era Miami Modern condominium

By Sylvia Westall Two million euros in three months: that's the cost so far for Vienna's Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist works by Monet and Renoir, as the financial crisis pulled