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Energy Voices Arctic Council: China looks north for oil, gas, and fish

Arctic Council grants China observer status. The eight-member Arctic Council will be key to regulating the anticipated resource rush as warming temperatures further open the Arctic to oil and gas drilling and fishing.

Will Dutch police soon be stalking cybercriminals on your computer?

Chapter & Verse '1Q84' author Haruki Murakami makes his first public appearance in Japan in 18 years

To save more newborns, focus on the poor, report says

'A Nation at Risk': How much of 'apocalyptic' education report still applies?

Does Sweden have a racial profiling problem?

Tax VOX How should the US pay for corporate tax reform?

Bank of Cyprus: Big depositors may lose 60 percent

Estonian austerity, Paul Krugman, and Twitter: All the elements of an opera?

Global News Blog China pushes for Arctic foothold, from a thousand miles away

Deal at Czech nuclear power plant fuels US-Russia economic rivalry

Global News Blog How many frogs does it take to make a handbag? Tokyo museum has the answer

Why juvenile incarceration reached its lowest rate in 38 years

Closing education achievement gap: blue-ribbon panel offers blueprint

5 big losers in press freedom: Mali and ... Japan?

Cybercrime takedown: Is it game over for Gozi trojan that stole millions?

Longer school year: Will extended school day add competitiveness?

Is this the year that the eurocrisis ends?

Opinion As fiscal cliff approaches, don't be fooled by the great Nordic myth

Global sympathy for Newtown, antipathy for US gun laws (+video)

Gun control after school shootings: Lessons from around the globe

Baltic nations offer ex-Soviet states a Western model

How does US compare in math, science, reading? Younger students do better.

Greece seen as most corrupt European nation, survey says

Cargo ship sinks in North Sea, search continues for survivors