Jostling for position in the African Union jive
The fanfare may be receding but the fallout from the inaugural African Union summit is still baffling observers, writes Gamal Nkrumah

When profits kill
Squeezed between realpolitik and corporate greed, millions of AIDS patients die every year, writes Negar Azimi

Musharraf's bagful of woes
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's attempts to consolidate his power base are being assaulted on all fronts, writes Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Another day, another scandal
Could the recent revelations of corporate corruption in the US have pushed the world economy closer to the brink? Fayza Radi investigates

The erosion of civil liberties and freedom that has been a feature of life in the United States since 11 September continued with the recent announcement of a new plan to turn one in every 24 Americans into citizen- informants. --read on--