COVER

Bad Reception (The BBC | Under Fire)

Can the British Broadcasting Corporation be both a global player and a public servant?

World Service? (The BBC | Auntie Worldwide)

How the planet's best-known public service broadcaster learned to love capitalism

FRANCE

"France Needs To Open Up" (France | Raffarin Q&A)

Raffarin on reform, resistance, regionalization — and his country's nervous nature

MIDDLE EAST

The Peacemaker

An Israeli colonel tries to keep Jerusalem's Temple Mount from exploding

LATIN AMERICA

A Strongman Returns (Latin America | Guatemala)

Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt is out to win the votes of people he's accused of terrorizing

SPORTS

Sports Watch (Notebook | Sports Watch)

Schumy Nears Victory; Religious Chants

ESSAY

A Veiled Genius (Essay | Rian Malan)

The chilly brilliance of new Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee

TIME NEXT

Is 4G The Future? (TIME Next | 4G)

After the 3G flop, can 4G connect with consumers?

Name That Tune, in One Call (TIME Next | Music Recognition)

Thanks to a mobile-phone service called Shazam, you can now identify almost any song you hear

FOOD & WINE

ARTS

BOOKS

GLOBAL ADVISER

Give It a Whirl (The Cost-Of-Living-It-Up Index)

Take a helicopter tour above the world's scenic cities

Tech Watch (Tech Watch)

USB gadgets are cute and trendy and getting more useful all the time

BRIEFING

On The Offensive (Notebook | Russia)

The Kremlin adopts a national-security policy that includes preemptive military strikes

Biz Watch (Notebook | Biz Watch)

Ups and Downs of KLM/Air France; Putting Brakes on Carmakers

World Watch (Notebook)

Turkey's Big Decision; Al-Qaeda Setbacks; About Time in Ecuador