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Karachi, Pakistan, a city of about 15 million, is a series of contradictions. As many as half its residents live in squatter homes made of concrete blocks even as foreign firms pour big money into luxury waterfront developments.

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Italy is moving ahead with plans to fingerprint the country's Roma, or gypsy, people. The government says the fingerprinting is necessary to fight crime, identify illegal immigrants and protect Roma children from exploitation. The plan has critics.

The Bush administration has said that an Iraq with a freely chosen government could serve as a model for spreading democracy in the Middle East. But is that goal really in the United States' interest? A panel of experts debates.

Retired generals have begun speaking out about what they say is the increasing politicization of the military. They say senior officers are expected to echo the Bush administration's official line on the war on terror.

Stan O'Neal spent his early childhood delivering newspapers, and picking cotton and corn on the family farm. He was educated in a one-room school built by his grandfather, a former slave. Forty years later, he was head of a $50 billion investment bank.

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How is the internet increasing learning opportunities for people, and revolutionizing education around the world? We speak to the author of the new book "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education."

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