The North Korean nuclear saga highlights the growing political clout of China and Russia and the parallel waning of US power in international politics, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The earthquake opened up Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to the world. Will Islamabad close it again, asks Graham Usher in Muzaffarabad

One year after Pakistan's devastating earthquake, Graham Usher returns to a village haunted by the past and frightened by the future

Last week's vote aiming to make it an offence in France to question the Armenian genocide has met with some formidable opposition, reports David Tresilian in Paris