By Camille Elhassani on August 2nd, 2010
Barack Obama, the US president, is spending much of August on a fundraising tour ahead of midterm elections in November. He's raising big bucks...
By Rob Reynolds on July 31st, 2010
There are places, like the medical examiners office in Tucson, Arizona, where the human cost of migration to the United States is counted.Dr...
By Rhodri Davies on July 30th, 2010
Argentina has been playing a double-headed role in attempting to resolve the latest dispute between Bogota and Caracas over Colombian...
By Imran Khan on August 3rd, 2010
There are times, few and far between I might add, that flying has its benefits. Arriving into Pakistan from London I got a birds eye view of the...
By Kamal Hyder on August 2nd, 2010
The Swat I saw last is not the same anymore. Pakistan's north-bound motorway, the M1, that links Peshawar and others parts of the north west...
By Kamal Hyder on August 1st, 2010
Those people who had electricity during the heavy downpour were able to watch images of people clinging for life against the force of water....
By Barnaby Phillips on August 1st, 2010
An interesting stand-off has developed in the last few days between striking Greek truckers, and a government that seems determined to come out...
By Teymoor Nabili on July 28th, 2010
Hans Blix's appearance before the Chilcott Inquiry has been covered a number of ways, but most media chose to highlight Blix's scepticism...
By Barnaby Phillips on July 22nd, 2010
<!--StartFragment--> A stunning victory for Kosovo, a bitter defeat for Serbia; it’s hard to interpret the ruling of the International Court...
By Rosie Garthwaite on August 2nd, 2010
Out last night meeting new friends with familiar tales to tell of police corruption. Over the last year or so both of them have been asked by...
By Rosie Garthwaite on July 28th, 2010
A shake, a twist, a light clasp and subtle thumb click away, eyes on eyes throughout; after half a dozen townships and about fifty clumsy hellos...
By Gregg Carlstrom on August 3rd, 2010
At least three Lebanese soldiers and one Israeli soldier have been killed during a skirmish along the border between the two countries. We'...
By Teymoor Nabili on August 2nd, 2010
In The New York Times, Professor Efraim Karsh of King’s College London, draws our attention to a poll that suggests 71 per cent of Arabs...
By Dan Nolan on July 28th, 2010
I've read a lot about the labour camps where the construction workers building Dubai’s dazzling skyline call home but until now, I'd never...
By Teymoor Nabili on August 3rd, 2010
Banks on the mend, stocks in London and New York bouncing... looks like the recovery is in full flow, right? For David Stockman, a director of...
By Abid Ali on July 27th, 2010
Tony Hayward paid a heavy price. In stepping down as the chief executive of BP he’ll cushion the blow with a 1.6 million dollar pay-off, and...
By Abid Ali on July 21st, 2010
Is BP bashing getting out of hand? The latest salvos from US legislators are over BP’s involvement in the release of the Lockerbie bomber. David...