Earlier this year, two Paris-based organisations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Financial Action Task Force, took aim at the Caribbean.

ECONOMIST: The Caribbean: Small states, big money | The

French and British police have formed a joint task force comprising Surrey police, French police and French magistrates, with the aim of speeding up the flow of information between the two countries.

BBC: French Alps murders: 'Long task' to solve case

The Peripheral Artery Disease Coalition of more than 50 organizations endorses ABI screening, and is lobbying the federal Preventive Services Task Force to review the test with the aim of getting it covered more widely by Medicare.

WSJ: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) - When Achy Legs Are a Warning

Yayorin ( www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.

BBC: Drifting down the Sekonyer