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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…

ANOTHER month, another string of victories for Google, the world’s emerging internet superpower. On Tuesday April 17th, in the latest sign that Google has the upper hand over all its rivals, Yahoo! disappointed analysts with its first quarter results: profits were down by 11% to $142m.…

By ALAN RIDING LONDON, April 17 — You might be forgiven for thinking that the London Book Fair is about books and authors — and of course in a sense it is. It is just that few books and even fewer authors are seen here. Rather, with the public excluded from the fair’s…

By MICHELINE MAYNARD FIRST there were boutique hotels — small, private, luxurious and impressive. They were expensive, but that was not an issue for the people frequenting them. Now they are settings for boutique business meetings, where executives are cosseted, achievers are…

Receiving, not giving Apr 12th 2007 | TOKYO From The Economist print editionReuters Softbank's latest reinvention, as a mobile firm, proceeds apace. But the company's ability to churn through cash has not changed AT THE height of the dotcom mania seven years ago, Softbank's stockmarket value…