The Sony Ericsson Championships, the season-ending event of the Women's Tennis Association, is being held in the Middle East for the first time this week. Billie Jean King, who helped found the WTA Tour, says that she believes by holding the event in Doha, Qatar, tennis can help bring change to a region where women's…

It's a beautiful morning here, one of those mornings no one in Beijing ever has anymore where you can pretend it's the 70s and the world is less polluted but visions of stagflation might dance in your head, or you can be like Moe and I and pretend it's the 90s and read about 90s music and China's human rights record…