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Apr 28th 2007 | TORONTO From Economist.comA cautious government plan to clean up the environment    WHEN the Conservatives formed a minority government a little over a year ago, green issues were not a priority. But, ever since, as voters have grown increasingly keen on doing something…

Apr 26th 2007 | BERLIN From The Economist print editionHow not to do a boardroom coup Reuters  JUST days after the resignation of Heinrich von Pierer as head of the supervisory board of Siemens, the leadership crisis at Europe’s biggest engineering group claimed a new victim. On…

By NICK BUNKLEY DEARBORN, Mich., April 26 — The Ford Motor Company narrowed its first-quarter loss after eliminating thousands of jobs and cutting millions of dollars in spending, but the company’s chief executive acknowledged today that “we still have a long way to go to…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:02 a.m. ET MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his clearest rejection yet of speculation that he would try to seek a third term, but gave no hint in his state of the nation address as to whom he sees as his preferred successor.…

ANOTHER month, another string of victories for Google, the internet's emerging superpower. With the most popular search engine and the most efficient system for placing text advertisements alongside the results, Google already dominates the lucrative market for “paid search” advertising…

By MICHELINE MAYNARD DETROIT, April 24 — A quarter century ago, people in this city not only bashed the surging Japanese car companies with words, they also vented their frustration by swinging sledgehammers at Japanese cars, a way for some to raise money for charity (three swings…

Boris Yeltsin has died. A hero or not? AFP  Get article backgroundBORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN helped to destroy the Soviet Union and did much to bring Russia’s democracy into existence. The former construction engineer was not a great builder of institutions; the democracy was flawed.…

NYC Pledges 1 Million New Trees by 2017 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:26 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability,…

By MARTIN FACKLER NAGASAKI, Japan, April 20 — The shooting death this week of this city’s popular mayor has left people puzzling over the shooter’s motive and has set off a national outcry about a less savory aspect of Japanese society: its teeming criminal underworld. On…

Its politicians are still running away from a debate about guns The Economist  Get article backgroundIN THE aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech university on April 16th, as the nation mourned a fresh springtime crop of young lives cut short by a psychopath's bullets, President George…