Installed in a sleek glass office block in Caracas, General Baduel, a man as serene as the president is intemperate, has spent the past few weeks telling Venezuelans that the proposed reform amounted to another coup.

ECONOMIST: Defeat for Hugo Ch��vez

Last month, a policeman challenged a car with tinted glass (which is against the law) carrying the family of a senior general in Lahore.

ECONOMIST: The armed forces' uncivil behaviour

The Urbis exhibition - an impressive glass-and-chrome building housing a completely interactive history of Manchester and cities in general - will be completed by the end of next year.

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