Weekend Update

- Newly elected Kadima leader Tzipi Livni will call for a snap election later today.

- In the midst of the global financial crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF managing director, was cleared of wrongdoing in a sex scandal by an outside panel.

- Yesterday, almost 500,000 members of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party protested against the upcoming visit of members of China's government.

- Before the financial crisis, there was the food crisis (the topic of an article in our first issue). Now, the new global crisis is exacerbating the old one.