By John Terrett on February 7th, 2010
By all accounts it was a huge explosion … ripping through part of the Kleen Energy Systems power plant at Middletown Connecticut 188km...
By Rob Reynolds on February 7th, 2010
On Saturday February 6, I returned to Port-au-Prince after an absence of 10 days. I found some things have changed, with some positive signs...
By Gabriel Elizondo on February 6th, 2010
On the first Sunday in October Brazilians will go to the polls to decide who will get the task of trying to replace Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as...
By Zeina Khodr on February 7th, 2010
Continental Hotel, Kandahar - an address many foreign journalists, businessmen and employees of international organisations and aid groups know...
By Kamal Hyder on February 5th, 2010
Pakistan is marking Kashmir day with countrywide demos to show solidarity with the people of Kashmir. Pakistan believes that there can be no...
By Alan Fisher on February 4th, 2010
After my recent trip to Pakistan, many people have asked me 'But what's it REALLY like?' For them, and others, here are a few random thoughts...
By Alan Fisher on February 7th, 2010
Afghanistan and the role of Nato was scheduled to be today’s big discussion at the Munich Security Conference.  The big hitters were...
By Neave Barker on February 6th, 2010
The last official day of campaigning in Ukraine was marked by two simultaneous rallies on squares at opposite ends of the same street.   In...
By Alan Fisher on February 6th, 2010
The Munich Security Conference has grown over more than 40 years to become an important point in the calendar for those interested in such...
By Mike Hanna on February 7th, 2010
The image that stuck with me that bright February morning was never filmed or photographed. A pair of white police officers were watching a...
By Haru Mutasa on February 3rd, 2010
South African president Jacob Zuma has admitted to fathering his 20th child – out of wedlock. After days of speculation on...
By Haru Mutasa on February 2nd, 2010
A Chinese company is considering making dolls of the controversial South African president Jacob Zuma, a media report says.
By Ayman Mohyeldin on February 8th, 2010
We all know what its like when we go to the doctor's office for that routine check up once a year ... and undoubtedly there is that moment...
By Teymoor Nabili on February 3rd, 2010
It's been a busy few weeks on board the bomb-Iran bandwagon. It wasn't quite gunboat diplomacy, but President Obama sent missile "defence...
By Ayman Mohyeldin on January 31st, 2010
The streets of Gaza erupted on Sunday evening... not in anger or protest... but in rare celebration.  That's right, tens of thousands of...
By Abid Ali on February 6th, 2010
Does it matter how low the president of Toyota bows down? Apparently - Akio Toyoda didn't show enough contrition because he wasn't...
By Teymoor Nabili on January 31st, 2010
As anticipated, the fourth quarter growth of the US economy has prompted fresh optimism about the strength of the US recovery. For some...
By Teymoor Nabili on January 27th, 2010
Maybe Barack Obama's eyes have, indeed, suddenly been opened to the need for reform of the financial sector. But while he deliberates over the...