Links of Interest

The Rich 100: The frugal billionaire by Joe Castaldo
Cell-phone video becoming news tool by David Bauder

Portraits of Afghanistan by Justin Huggler
The veil is a feminist issue by Joan Smith
The woman who defied the Taliban, and paid with her life by Kim Sengupta
The small advances women have made are now being wiped out by Leonard Doyle
Christmas Appeal: Help for the generation robbed of its education by Justin Huggler
Taliban use beheadings and beatings to keep Afghanistan's schools closed by Tom Coghlan
The Taliban are gone but Afghan women still learn to read and write in secret classrooms by Nick Meo