| Romney, allies launch ad war for Illinois primary | | WASHINGTON - In the wild race for the Republican presidential nomination, there has been one constant: When Mitt Romney really needs to do well in a state, he and his allies pour money into ads, most of which attack his rivals. | | Saving biodiversity will be expensive | | WASHINGTON - Saving biodiversity — the vast and essential variety of the natural world — will be expensive, at an estimated $300 billion a year for the next eight years. | | Ill-armed Syrian rebels wage unequal struggle | | QUSAIR, Syria - The computer engineer from Homs had hoped to work in Dubai after his military service. Make some money, marry his fiancee. Carve out a comfortable life in Syria’s slowly liberalising economy. | | Afghanistan joins railroad era — 100 years late | | KABUL, Afghanistan — More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radical decision: He banned railroads. | | Google pressures developers to use Wallet | | Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc’s iOS platform. | | Automakers put snarl in small car design | | GENEVA — Small cars were looking more sleek and sporty at the Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday as global automakers struggling to make a profit in Europe tried to entice consumers to look past the continent’s economic gloom. | |
