One week after the US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Bush administration by ruling against indefinite detention of so-called "enemy combatants," US officials are scrambling to implement the verdict, Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

Although the US Supreme Court overruled the no-law zone in Guantanamo prisoners remain in a legal limbo, writes Faiza Rady

Nader is campaigning against the corporate takeover of the US. Anayat Durrani reports from Los Angeles

Free and fair elections do not necessarily spell change, writes Damien Kingsbury

Negotiations between the US and North Korea are in full swing, writes Ahmed Reda

The humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur has emerged as the litmus test for the African Union's capacity for conflict resolution, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Africa is facing one of the worst public health calamities of recent times; the race is now on to save thousands of children on the continent from paralysis, writes Colette Kinsella