"Mumbai has about 4,000 Jewish residents..Today, most of Mumbai’s Jews have roots in a group known as the Bene Israel community, which claims to be descended from seven Jewish families who were shipwrecked on India’s shore while fleeing persecution in the Galilee during the second century B.C."
"For years, Britain was almost alone in using evidence of cost-effectiveness to decide what to pay for. But skyrocketing prices for drugs and medical devices led a growing number of countries to ask the hardest of questions: How much is life worth?...It all started with Viagra."
"An explosion of violence connected with Mexico’s powerful drug cartels has left more than 5k people dead so far this year...rising death toll reflects President Calderón’s aggressive stance toward the cartels, which has forced traffickers into a bitter war over the dwindling turf that remains."
"With Sri Lanka’s military making its deepest push into rebel territory in a decade,..civil war appears to be edging closer to a military solution. ..Mr. Rajapaksa, the brother of President.., ended long-running peace negotiations and ignored international calls to improve..human rights record."