COVER

The Scandal's Growing Stain (Cover Story)

Abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq shock the world and roil the Bush administration. The inside story of what went wrongand who's to blame

AUSTRALIA OBSERVED

ASIA

Tribal Tribulations

A campaign to flush out Islamic militants hiding in Pakistan's Wild West tests the will of Islamabad and the U.S.

BUSINESS

Trouble Brewing

Why are the world's largest beer brewers fighting over a company in northeast China?

SOUTH PACIFIC

Law and Borders

New Zealand worries that its amiable image is attracting entirely the wrong kind of people

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Troy Story (Arts/Cinema)

How did an Iliad adaptation turn into an endless moviemaking odyssey? Blame hurricanes, turtles, Bulgarian weight lifters ...

BRIEFING

Seabed Sickness (Notebook)

After a year of fierce public debate, a controversial law on ownership of the nation's foreshores and seabed passed its first reading in Parliament