Following the first round of the French presidential elections last weekend, there seems little doubt that the next French president will be Nicolas Sarkozy, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Seven years after the fall of the Taliban, Kabul is living on hope but precious little else, writes Graham Usher from the Afghan capital

Yar'Adua is stepping into the vortex of Nigerian politics as Obasanjo the kingmaker steps down, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died 23 April at the age of 76 of heart failure...