Need to know: As Muammar Gaddafi vowed today that he would fight to the "last man and last woman" to defend his country, his forces launched a major counterattack in Libya's east. Meanwhile, rebels are thinking about whether they should ask for foreign help to put the nail in Gaddafi's coffin.  |
Want to know: Apple is set to refresh the iPad to stave off rivals who are fast making their own tablet-style, iPad-killers. And it was 50 years ago today that U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed off on a great American social experiment: the Peace Corps. |
Dull but important: Muhammad Yunus was fired from Grameen bank, which he won the Nobel for founding. Yunus won Bangladesh much fame for the successful microfinance model pioneered by Grameen, but then fell out with the government in 2007 while trying to set up a new political party. |
Just because: Innovation is key to global economics. We know this - and, as GlobalPost's new series, "Innovation, Inc." uncovers - we also know innovation can happen anywhere. One place where it needs to happen more, however, is Vietnam - at least according to the Vietnamese. Currently, Vietnam has trouble creating an educated workforce that can research and design its own products. By investing more in education, can Vietnam breed a class of innovators?
And what happens when a Japanese pop group wears replica Nazi uniforms on primetime television? Why, they have to apologize, of course. |
Wacky: Putin had been partial to the snow leopard, but Medvedev preferred the polar bear. And the scandal was off and running. Leave it to Russia to foment a fuss over something as seemingly innoncuous as an Olympic mascot.
And why do the world's fattest people live on islands? |
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