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The real reward

As Brazil, barely hit by the global crisis, lifts ever more citizens from poverty, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nears his final year in office held in high regard

Woman in the News: Neelie Kroes

The EU competition commissioner’s political savvy and inherent toughness have come into their own in the financial crisis. No one who has heard her speak about the dangers of protectionism could doubt her conviction

Boffins at bay

Outraged at the abrupt sacking of the UK’s chief drugs adviser, experts say their independence is under political attack – but overall scientists are increasingly involved in decision-making

Failure of imagination

After the wall: East Berliners’ push for freedom 20 years ago started a process that spread across the world – but lost chances mean reforms to global governance are only now being pondered, writes Quentin Peel

Hope in Ohio’s aisles

America: With an economy heavily dependent on consumer demand, the response of US shoppers to signs of an upturn is crucial – and bellwether Columbus shows a wary resilience, writes Jonathan Birchall

Burning ambition

Energy: As China’s state oil companies seek ever bigger foreign deals, fears are growing at the extent of the sway it holds in the developing world – but the reality is rather more complex

Heating up

As talks ahead of December’s Copenhagen summit enter their final phase, much depends on how America will respond to offers in the absence of a congressional deal

Merkel’s bold gamble

Germany: In going for economic growth rather than a reduced deficit, the chancellor is staking her second term on the success of policies she long rejected and still admits may not work

The Vietnam moment

War and politics: As Barack Obama prepares to decide on a surge in troops to Afghanistan, he risks pleasing neither hawks nor doves – a dilemma similar to that of Lyndon Johnson four decades ago

Man in the News: Kenneth Feinberg

America’s ‘special master’ for executive compensation rejects the title of ‘tsar’, but not the power to curb salaries at companies receiving government aid. And he is making an impact

Inside Blair Inc

Time to adjust the set

Closer connections

Payback time

The new Ostpolitik

Brothers in the News: Anil and Mukesh Ambani

Galleon’s reach

Emirate re-engineered

The knocked postman

Spanish in position

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