By David Gallerano
♦ “We cannot rebuild this economy on this same pile of sand", President Obama said in April 2009. Robin Harding analyses the rebalancing process of the American economy and draws an alarming conclusion: the United States is building again on the same foundations of sand.
♦ The notorious gang rape of December 2012 in New Delhi is changing the way Indian women react to sexual abuses and violence.
♦ Triton Foundation gets $24m in insurance while a farcical trial goes on in Romania: the brand new episodes of the incredible saga of the paintings stolen from the Kunstahl Museum in Rotterdam.
♦ The New York Times illustrates in detail the long process that led Vladimir Putin to make his proposal on Assad's chemical weapons.
♦ Meanwhile, satirical news site the Onion reports on how the US arms industry reacted to John Kerry's declaration: "our Secretary of State had to run his big fat mouth about options for averting war, and now we're out hundreds of billions of dollars". But Lockheed's CEO Marilyn Hewson is reassuring: "He will probably say something idiotic in the near future that would lead to another lucrative international conflict". Continue reading » | 
