British journalist James Longman managed to spend two weeks in Syria on his own accord and without the Syrian government's knowledge. He attended protests by the opposition movement and spoke to army defectors about their decision to leave. Melissa Block talks to him about his experience.
Profits for the nation's carmakers are on the rise, but after years of doing more with less, higher profits are unlikely to translate into significant numbers of new jobs. There are eight fewer plants and hundreds of thousands fewer workers in the industry than before the Great Recession.