• Born into a Protestant family in a Paris suburb, where his overbearing father was head of a school for the handicapped, Mr Jospin showed little early promise.

    ECONOMIST: Lionel Jospin, escape artist

  • Yet, the vote was supervised by the Carter Center, which congratulated the electoral process and praised it for the way it was conducted mostly for "the good facilities available for the handicapped".

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez's repression continues

  • NGOs in Tehran, one for the physically handicapped, the other for runaways, drug addicts and streetchildren, believes that the legalisation of prostitution is the only hope for the women who have to engage in it.

    ECONOMIST: And the roots of discontent

  • One of the biggest problems is schooling: Roma children are routinely placed in institutions for the mentally handicapped.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's Roma

  • Working in primary schools in poor neighbourhoods, he also contributed to literacy training for adults and education for the visually handicapped.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • But he has just set up his own Internet company, disabilitycity.com, a kind of Amazon.com for the physically handicapped in suburban Chicago.

    ECONOMIST: Iowa

  • Foundation, which funds Catholic organizations and institutions for the mentally handicapped.

    CNN: Eunice Shriver recovers from hip surgery

  • In the village of Holybourne, near Alton, the council has adapted a toilet in a pub for use by the handicapped because of the presence, across the road, of a disabled facility.

    BBC: Save our loos plea

  • Think of the advantage for some populations, including the handicapped and impaired drivers, or the elderly who have trouble seeing at night.

    FORBES: Self-Driving Cars Will Take Over By 2040

  • As well as suffering the points penalty, Widdrington was handicapped for much of the season by being unable to register new players.

    BBC: Boss Tommy Widdrington welcomes Salisbury City appeal

  • She had the Argus II implanted in her left eye in 2009 after hearing about the device through her work at the New York state Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped.

    WSJ: The Quest to Create A Bionic Eye Gets Clearer

  • The Red Hands must prepare for the last eight eliminator on 4 August handicapped by the fact that they won't know who their opponents will be until less than a week before the game.

    BBC: SPORT | Northern Ireland | The Championship | Red Hands trio face fitness race

  • From the fight of handicapped women for motherhood to a man's battle against desertification, from the use of rap and dance to escape violence to reflecting on the concept of "home" and migration, these films are currently being broadcast worldwide, leading viewers to consider important societal issues.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • The Missionaries of Charity runs hostels for lepers, AIDS patients, the crippled and mentally handicapped, unwed mothers, abandoned children, alcoholics, drug abusers.

    CNN: PASSAGE

  • Last month, New York City launched a new dispatch system for wheelchair-accessible taxis, making it easier for handicapped visitors and locals to get around the city.

    BBC: Improvements in handicap travel

  • The innovation world at large has been crafting ways for handicapped individuals to interact with computers for years on end, but the issue of tablets has created another predicament entirely.

    ENGADGET: Access4Kids input device allows disabled children to control touch-centric tablets (video)

  • Most are run, heroically, by the passionately committed, usually with a direct connection to the cause for example, the mother of a maimed conscript or of a handicapped child.

    ECONOMIST: Russian love in a cold climate

  • Gautam fears many infants under the age of three will be "handicapped for life" because their Crisis-stricken families have not been able to provide them with the healthy food vital for building intelligence and strong bodies.

    CNN: CHILDREN OF THE CRISIS

  • Last year, the press zeroed in on a subtle request to the organizers of a sports meeting for handicapped people in Yokohama.

    CNN: AN HEIR OF CHANGE IN JAPAN

  • He argues that partisan bickering has for too long handicapped Hungarian politics and that the last vestiges of communist influence need to be rooted out.

    BBC: EU opens legal action against Hungary over new laws

  • Once, a team announcer berated Akasaki for mistakenly assigning him to a handicapped room where the closet rod was just three feet off the ground.

    FORBES: How To Travel Like The Pros

  • The idea, for example, that parents of handicapped children might want to cherish them at home rather than dump them in an institution remains unfamiliar despite charities' efforts.

    ECONOMIST: Russian love in a cold climate

  • Mr Evans would not give interviews after his win, but in a statement said he would not be "handicapped by political correctness" in fighting for the town's needs.

    BBC: BNP's success 'devastating'

  • Newcastle interim boss Kinnear again left Owen - not long ago a hugely prolific goalscorer for England - on the bench, while Wigan were evidently handicapped by the absence of first-choice strikers Emile Heskey and Amr Zaki.

    BBC: Newcastle 2-2 Wigan

  • Haidar Talib, an Emirati travelled the 141km from Masdar City to Al Thiqa Club for Handicapped in Sharjah in 14 hours, 28 seconds on a solar-powered wheelchair.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • For the last few years the Chinese have acted largely unchallenged from a handicapped Bush administration and a disengaged Obama administration held hostage by its alternatives rhetoric.

    FORBES: China's Energy Grab Is No Green Affair

  • On December 8th he proposed a new allowance for spouses (usually wives) looking after dependants (children, the old and handicapped).

    ECONOMIST: Ireland

  • By raising donations of money, building materials, and professional labor, they coordinate the process of building a new home or adapting an existing home for handicapped accessibility.

    FORBES: No Gift Like the Present

  • Such a move would certainly do little to improve IVF's success rate, but Dr Lieberman says that for many in his field "success is measured only by the birth of a healthy, non-handicapped baby".

    BBC: IVF under the microscope

  • They have different perceptions of the man but agree on at least one thing - whatever Capt O'Neill intended to achieve he was handicapped by the fact he could never quite speak the language of the people who voted for his party.

    BBC: Captain Terence O'Neill: Visionary or failure?

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