As violence continued last week in the French capital's suburbs and spread to provincial cities, the French government has been accused of fiddling while Rome burns, writes David Tresilian from Paris

The explosion of the hinterlands of French cities belies the bankruptcy of the grand ideologies of equality and fraternity, writes Thomas Rathier in Paris

Opposition violence rocks Ethiopia threatening to thwart the country's nascent democratic process, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The Americas Summit fails to grasp its historic opportunity, but registers an injurious blow to Pax Americana, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Going down in the ratings, Bush has to scramble to save even a thread of modesty as the emperor is revealed naked, writes Mohamed Hakki

Many hoped that the South Asian earthquake would bring together the two parts of divided Kashmir. It hasn't, writes Graham Usher in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir