The extra cash will go on setting up a year-round field operation to lobby all levels of government.

ECONOMIST: The labour movement

In one operation to round up al-Qaeda members sheltering in a village, Yemeni forces were driven back by heavy gunfire.

ECONOMIST: Assassination by remote control | The

Russia has suggested to launch a joint operation to round them up, and even threatened a military action if Georgia would fail to flush the rebels.

BBC: Georgia accuses Russia of 'barbarism'

It is now unclear if the European Central Bank will roll out another round of its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO).

FORBES: Greek Election Fever Hits Wall Street Monday

To help shatter the illusion that cigarettes were cool he visited schools, testified to Congress and gave public lectures, pulling off his shirt to show the operation scars that wrapped halfway round his back.

ECONOMIST: Alan Landers, ex-smoker, died on February 27th, aged 68

For the world's leading central banks, the action is all in "unconventional measures" to support the economy and the banking system: like the UK's latest round of quantitative easing, or "operation twist" by the US Federal Reserve.

BBC: An unconventional ECB meeting

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve defended his decision to embark in an open-ended, third round of quantitative easing (QE3), extend Operation Twist, and extend their forward-rate guidance to 2015.

FORBES: Bernanke: I'm Not Using QE3 To Influence The 'Political Debate' And The Election

Legal advisers, involved in planning the operation from the start, were deployed during the fighting round the clock.

ECONOMIST: The UN report on Israel and Gaza

The World Summit on the Information Society being organized by ITU in co-operation with UNESCO and other UN agencies in December this year, with a second round in 2005, will need to tackle head-on the problem of inequitable access to telecommunications and the handicap this poses for global development.

UNESCO: INTERVIEW