The rainy season continues to torment Central America, with up to 1,000 people and 100-200 houses from a village trapped under a massive mud slide in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Officially the US and its international troops in Afghanistan are not fighting a war in Pakistan. But with air strikes launching into Pakistan last week, Pakistan is angry with the cross-border invasion. The Atlantic Wire wraps the latest.
In watching more than a decade of Venezuela reporting I have time and again marvelled at the capacity of a fixed mindset to reproduce itself endlessly.
According to new analysis from a US web security firm, a web virus Iran claims was targeted at its nuclear program was initiated by a highly organized outfit: either a government or a well resourced private group.
As Mexican newspapers see their journalists killed and threatened for reporting the drug wars, bloggers and tweeters are increasingly the most effective media for following the assassinations, shootings and kidnappings as they happen.
Despite the US proudly launching peace talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders just a month ago, no resolution could be reached before the end of Israel's freeze on West Bank settlement construction. What will Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas do now?
Dilbert founder Scott Adams explains why leaders around the world are "undeniably bat-spit crazy". Basically every country who is an enemy is crazy. And every country -- apart from Switzerland -- has enemies, so all leaders must be crazy. Geddit?
At the UN General Assembly yesterday firebrand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout by representatives of more than 30 countries, describing the September 11 attacks as an American concoction engineered to "save the Zionist regime."
Israel's military "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality" and violated human rights in its attack on the Gaza flotilla in May, declared a UN panel set up to investigate the controversy.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets a lot of -- rightly deserved -- flak from the Western media. But Esquire offers up five reasons why Ahmadinejad is good, like he could help stabilise Afghanistan and also serves as constant comedy fodder.
