Sarah Palin is not someone to dismiss: she is a dangerous populist that ought not to be underestimated, writes James Zogby

Today's reunion of Nobel Peace laureates Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama is a sign of the strangest of times, portends Gamal Nkrumah

The US political scene is careening from one conservative storm to another as Obama's ship of state flounders, says Anayat Durrani

THE CAPTURE of Taliban militant commander Mullah Abdel-Ghani Baradar in Karachi is the most important prize for the American CIA and the Pakistani intelligence service since March 2007, when they captured Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, a former Taliban defence minister and a close aide of the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohamed Omar...

A sense of relief at the appointment of Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan will help shape a new kind of politics in West Africa's sleeping giant, portends Gamal Nkrumah

Cracks are showing in the Putin-Medvedev rule, says Samy Amara from Moscow