Haiti's earthquake rekindles fears among its impoverished inhabitants that their island-nation is accursed, and of being left out, Gamal Nkrumah

The killing of CIA agents in Afghanistan highlighted the role of Jordanian intelligence in support of US operations there, Sana Abdallah reports from Amman

On Christmas Day a Nigerian was about to blow up an American airliner, on New Year's Eve a Jordanian inflicted the most grievous blow on the CIA in 25 years. Graham Usher, in New York, reports on the ramifications