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More than $60 billion has been given to Afghanistan in aid since 2001. But many question where all the money has gone. Many Afghans, displaced inside their own country due to war, continue to live in dangerous conditions. (Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason Johnston)

Women-only travel clubs take off in India

With growing education, employment and income, India’s women from the cities are shaking off traditional notions and seeking company from their sisterhood while traveling.

Al Jazeera

Women-only spaces grow in India

Sydney Morning Herald

Saudi Arabia rejects seat on UN Security Council

Saudi Arabia rejected its seat on the U.N. Security Council hours after it was elected to it, in a rare move aimed at protesting the body’s failure to resolve the Syrian civil war.

CBS News

‘No notification’ of Saudi Arabia snub — UN chief Ban

BBC

Italian court convicts Berlusconi of tax fraud

A Milan court ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud.

Globeandmail.com

Berlusconi’s ban from public office cut to 2 years on appeal

BusinessWeek

The government shutdown will cost the US billions of dollars

The 16-day government shutdown cost the economy jobs, delayed mortgages and lost retail sales — at least $12 billion worth, and maybe as much as $24 billion.

USA TODAY

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Here’s how much the government shutdown cost the economy

(TIME)

Swampland

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US government shutdown 2013

Guardian

Remarkable skull hints at dramatically simpler view of human evolution

A 1.8-million-year-old skull suggests that several species of early humans might not be different species at all, meaning the tree of human evolution might have fewer branches than previously thought.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Treatment of elderly a ‘national shame’

Huge numbers of elderly people are suffering from chronic loneliness as they are ignored within their communities.

Yahoo! News

Teaching kids charity? Skip the soup kitchen

Holiday season is often the time when parents think about helping their children develop charitable instincts. It’s a noble goal, but turning children into philanthropists is not so simple.

CNBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Why do teachers quit? And why do they stay?

Approximately 15.7 percent of teachers leave their posts every year, and 40 percent of teachers who pursue undergraduate degrees in teaching never even enter the classroom at all. So, the question remains: Why?

The Atlantic

Goldman must turn over female employee complaints in suit

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. must turn over internal gender-bias complaints by female workers to lawyers representing women in a lawsuit alleging the firm discriminated against them in pay and promotions.

Bloomberg

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Mismanagement highlighted in East Timor

East Timor’s government has come under renewed public criticism after granting a contract to a Chinese state-owned company to supply furniture to Timorese schools.

Al Jazeera

Asia needs $59 billion of water, sewage investments

Asia needs an estimated $59 billion in infrastructure improvements in water supplies and sanitation for the region’s 4.3 billion people, according to the Asian Development Bank.

Bloomberg

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Weapons, fighters flow to Syria’s next battlefront

Opposing sides in Syria’s grueling civil war are girding for the opening of a key battlefront in the coming weeks, with expectations that the fighting will spill over into Lebanon.

Christian Science Monitor

Syria crisis: Who is fighting in the conflict?

BBC

European human rights laws could ‘paralyze’ the army

Human rights laws and health and safety regulations could hamper British military operations in the field, according to experts.

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How Google street view could fight invasive species

Google’s online street views could help scientists track and fight invasive species over the Internet, researchers say.

LiveScience

Mascara exempt from mercury treaty

Under a new global treaty that limits the use of mercury, some light bulbs, batteries, thermometers and medical devices will be banned. But mascara is exempt.

Scientific American

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Tom Phillips):

What got into the Saudis?

CNN

Column (Darren Curnoe):

Of heads and headlines: Can a skull doom 14 human species?

LiveScience

Blog (Scott Neuman):

India arrests crew of US ship for carrying weapons

(NPR)

The Two-Way

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GOOD NEWS

Nuns with a new creed: environmentalism

While many of their aged peers are living out their days in quiet convents, other nuns are digging gardens and offsetting carbon.

The Atlantic

Study: Food tastes sweeter when you’re in love

Experiments at the University of Singapore show that not only do we correlate the word love with sweetness, but thoughts of romance may make us perceive what we eat and drink as sweeter, too.

Salon

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Why the world’s technology giants are investing in Africa

Africa is booming, with growth of 5.6 percent predicted for 2013, according to the World Bank; yet, research suggests this has still to trickle down to the very poorest on the continent.

BBC

State senator says her NGOs have never misused state funds

State Treasurer John Kennedy continues to spar with a Baton Rouge lawmaker over the financial status of her husband’s nonprofit.

Times-Picayune

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental lawyer in $19 billion Amazon judgment faces RICO trial

One of the hemisphere’s most contentious and longest-running environmental trials is going on trial. A New York judge will begin hearing testimony this week.

Miami Herald

Blog:

Chevron’s RICO trial against Donziger begins

(CNNMoney)

Fortune

Aftershocks keep Filipinos on edge

After a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol, Philippines, rescuers and relief volunteers struggled with obstructed roads to reach victims. Their efforts were complicated by storms and aftershocks.

Al Jazeera

Philippine earthquake death toll hits 151

Gulf News

‘Toxic bomb’ ticks on Maldives’ Trash Island

Descending by plane into the Maldives offers a panoramic view of azure seas and coral-fringed islands, but as the tarmac nears, billowing smoke in the middle distance reveals an environmental calamity.

Discovery News

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Many modern nuns are adapting a creed of environmentalism where they are concerned about offsetting carbon and community supported agriculture. (Photo by VISION Vocation Guide)

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