No place like home
Israel might not be the land of milk and honey for Ethiopia's Jews, but the Israeli government is keen to have them there, writes Gamal Nkrumah

SARS resurfaces
Last Monday, the Chinese authorities acknowledged 2004's third case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)'s in Southern China, Hala Sakr reports

AS THE UN proclaimed 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition, the director-general of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Koïchiro Matsuura called for a universal recommitment to combat all contemporary forms of the scourge. --caption--

Peace and progress in South Asia
Thawing relations between India and Pakistan almost overshadowed other important achievements at the South Asian Agreement for Regional Cooperation Summit, writes Iffat Idris from Islamabad

Free trade fiasco
As it celebrates its tenth anniversary, many experts agree that the North American Free Trade Agreement has failed to live up to expectations. Jaideep Mukerji finds out why

A real pig's ear
Jingoism rears its ugly head in Britain following an article by a TV talk show host. Alistair Alexander reports from London

The Hutton inquiry
IT IS a truism in British politics that a public inquiry's final report never lives up to the impact of the hearings...

Harrowing holidays
An upgraded terror warning lent a paranoid atmosphere to the holidays in the US. Sharif Abdel-Kouddous reports from New York

Welcome to America
Everyone's a suspect in the brave new world of US travel. Nyier Abdou looks at the US's controversial new screening programmes

Learning from Alice
The US government's disinformation campaign about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is rapidly unravelling, writes Faiza Rady