Somebody cares
The rescue packages the IMF approved for Brazil and Uruguay suggest an important change of policy. Not only at the IMF, but also in US government circles, Hisham El-Naggar reports from Buenos Aires

Kausar's calamity
A personal tragedy, with ramifications on human rights and relations between India and Pakistan, leaves the Asian sub-continent spellbound, reports Shaikh Azizur Rahman from Jammu, India

Targeting Pakistan's Christians
Christians in Pakistan are now regarded as easy targets by terrorists focused on ruining the country's reputation, reports Iffat Malik from Islamabad

France cracks down on the extreme right
Last week's ban on the extreme-right group Unité radicale has drawn attention to the links between such activist groups and the mainstream French extreme-right parties, writes David Tresilian from Paris

Who can you trust?
New anti-terrorism measures in the US summon the ghost of McCarthyism. Nyier Abdou probes what happens when Big Brother meets war hysteria

No more keeping secrets
The US's internal "war on terror" was challenged in a Washington courtroom last week, as secret arrests -- many of them involving Arab and Muslim detainees -- were declared illegal. Mukul Devichand reports from New York City