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Best columns: International
feature Why civilian rule is hardly a cure-all for Pakistan; how to stop thieves from stealing energy in Zimbabwe; and gaining land while losing credibility in Israel
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Canada: Is Toronto’s mayor a crackhead?
feature We have seen a cellphone video of what looks very much like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
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China: Land of mystery meat
feature What are you supposed to feed your family when you can’t trust the labels on meat?
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Egypt: Why are Coptic Christians under attack?
feature A suicide bomber struck a midnight service at a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria over New Year’s, killing 23 people and wounding scores of others.
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Russia: The beginning of the end of Putin?
feature Putin's United Russia party won the parliamentary election and will keep control of the State Duma, but it lost the two-thirds majority that allows it to change the constitution at will.
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Egypt: Have Islamists hijacked the revolution?
feature The latest Al-Jazeera poll shows that nearly 50 percent of Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, while another 27 percent support the Saudi-backed Salafists.
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Why we only need one political party; How lawlessness breeds more lawlessness
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India
feature Shelving a nuclear deal with the U.S.
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Saudi Arabia: When vice is wearing eye makeup
feature Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice “have repeatedly shown that they do not respect the people’s right of privacy,” said Khalid Alnowaiser at Arab News.
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Egypt: Will the revolution hurt women?
feature Next on the chopping block, and already under discussion, is our right to sue for divorce and then to retain custody of our children, said Aliaa Dawood at Al-Masry Al-Youm.
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Canada: How to waste $1 billion a year
feature Even as the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s importance has plummeted, “its self-importance has skyrocketed,” said Ezra Levant at the Toronto Sun.
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Brazil: Can Rio clean up in time for the Olympics?
feature Brazil will be the first South American country ever to host the Olympic Games, but corruption marred the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio and the city is one of the most violent in the world.
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Russia: When oligarchs admit to their crimes
feature The confessions of Berezovsky and Abramovich are motivated not by remorse but rather by greed, said Stanislav Belkovsky at Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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Iran: Dutch woman becomes Iran’s latest victim
feature The mullahs have been carrying on a “30 Years War” against women: Bahrami is the latest victim, said Mina Saadadi in De Volkskrant.
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