It is the time for the Americans to call it quits in Afghanistan, writes Gamal Nkrumah

An attack on an India-Pakistan train service was as bad as last year's bombings in Mumbai but the political impact was different, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

Last week's defeat of the government of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in the Senate has clearly demonstrated the difficulty of maintaining political stability with a fragile majority, writes Samia Nkrumah from Rome