Unfortunate attacks and accidents in the past week have claimed dozens of lives in different countries around the world: at least 13 people were Killed in Pakistan from an apparent Taleban suicide blast, days after a targeted attack against both media and police; at least 32 people were killed in Taiwan when a tour bus crashed; and at least one person in Luxembourg died, when passenger and freight trains collided. And on a much broader scale, India's air pollution is causing about 1.1 million to die prematurely, and the Shiite-dominated national government in Falluja, Iraq is struggling to provide for 250,000 returning residents. Continue reading →