With France legislating to ban Muslim women from covering their face and hair, the European debate on Islamic veiling has taken a new and significant turn, expert Christian Joppke tells David Tresilian

Washington has again learned that while it can do little to change the Pakistani army's subversive role in Afghanistan, it can do even less without it, writes Graham Usher

Guinean leaders guffaw for political reform, laments Gamal Nkrumah