The longest reigning Labour PM is passing his mantle on to his soon-to-be French counterpart, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Will the 300-year-old marriage of convenience of Scotland and England be broken on the rock of the Scottish National Party's recent victory in the parliamentary elections? Mohamed El-Sayed reports from Edinburgh

The Taliban-led opposition to the occupation continues to grow, though little has changed in the Taliban's vision of the future, which is as bleak as its past for Graham Usher, who interviews a more fortunate comrade of Dadullah in Hawed, Pakistan