By mid-September, he had been briefed about Enron's mounting financial and operational problems, but did not come clean about them, according to the indictment.

ECONOMIST: The Enron drama goes to trial | The

But that will matter little to Hodgson as he contemplates the solid defending that yielded his side's first clean sheet since August, not to mention the possibility of sealing a top-half finish at Newcastle next weekend.

BBC: Youssouf Mulumbu

If he is re-elected, however, Lula needs to clean house not for Brazil's sake alone but also in the interests of the region.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Reducing America's petrol consumption by 20% by 2017, a target he announced in the state-of-the-union address, would certainly diminish the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the way he plans to go about it may not be either efficient or clean.

ECONOMIST: Climate change