In an effort to defuse the controversy over his speech two weeks ago, on Monday Pope Benedict XVI met Muslim ambassadors in his summer residence near Rome. But while the Islamic world is still reeling from insult, the conservative German media used the outrage to scapegoat Islam, reports Katharina Goetze

Inaccurate information led the US to send an Arab-Canadian to a Syrian jail. Now, with his name cleared, Maher Arar waits for compensation, reports Hadeel Al-Shalchi

Despite the occasional slip, the Bush-Musharraf pact is stronger than ever, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

Buddhist Thailand's history of corruption and military intervention might come to an end at the hands of a Muslim general with royal assent, writes Gamal Nkrumah