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Taking the cue from abroad
On Monday, the Sensex closed at a three-year low of 8160. For analysts and investors who are getting used to the benchmark indices falling to new depths, this plunge of one of the two main stock indices should be less significant than the fact ...

Removing the shackles
With a stroke of pen, President Barack Obama has removed the shackles stifling embryonic stem cell research in the United States. His executive order brings to an end the eight-year-old battle by the country’s scientific community to ...

Leader Page Articles
Iran lukewarm but ready for talks with U.S.
By Atul Aneja

Seeing no fundamental change in Washington so far following Barack Obama’s elevation to the presidency, Iran prepares for a possible dialogue with the United States without illusions of achieving a breakthrough anytime soon.

News Analysis
Climate threat to 85% of Amazon forest
By David Adam

Even small temperature rises will cause irreversible destruction of trees, says study.

Drugs: disastrous U.S. action in Colombia
By Grace Livingstone

The aerial assault on cocaine is wiping out everything — apart from coca plants.

Meet the climate change deniers
By Suzanne Goldenberg

Barack Obama may be worried about greenhouse gases — but not everyone is.

Empathy for chickens laying larger eggs
By Zoe Williams

Tom Vesey, chairman of the British Free Range Producers’ Association, has stated what I think we’ve known in our hearts all along: “It can be painful to the hen to lay a larger egg.” If you care about hen welfare, you ...

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