Children of al-Qaeda in Iraq pay for sins of their fathers

Why We Need a New Green Revolution to Stop Hunger

USA

Short of Repeal, G.O.P. Will Chip at Health Law

BP to share spill cleanup tools with industry

Europe

Mayor who fell foul of Kremlin flees Moscow

Roma Campaign Isolates Leader in Europe and France

Middle East

Hamas ready to accept 1967 borders for Palestinian state

The specter of the one-state solution

Asia

Thai colors bleed a complicated mosaic

North Korea names date for leadership summit

Africa

Women in Egypt get hi-tech aid to beat sex harassment

Sudan rejects foreign intervention ahead of referendum

Latin America

Tell us what to write, Mexican paper pleads with drugs gangs

The well is dead, but Gulf challenges live on

New footage shows tigers can thrive in Himalayas

USA

Sickle cell testing of athletes stirs discrimination fears

Investors seeing farmland as safer bet than stocks

Europe

Sweden’s ruling coalition heads for minority government

Across Europe, support for populist parties is on the rise

Middle East

Netanyahu’s ‘catastrophic success’

US troops still forced to bolster Iraqi forces in battle

Asia

Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up

Prostitutes of god

Africa

World leaders warned that approach to African aid needs a total rethink

Obama amps up intervention to prevent Sudan war

U.S. contractor accused of fraud still winning big Afghan projects

Gridlock? Men with earpieces? Must be the United Nations

USA

New Drugs Stir Debate on Basic Rules of Clinical Trials

Delaware’s O’Donnell is a ‘tea party’ hero, but controversy casts a shadow

Europe

Jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky warns UK on renewed alliance with Russia

Renegade Spanish mayor declares war on Gibraltar with toll at the border

Middle East

New aid convoy sets off for Gaza

In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government

Asia

Eight die as the Taliban disrupt Afghan elections

Kashmir protests claim more lives

Africa

Robert Mugabe’s 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election

Latin America

Trapped miners celebrate independence

Toyota reaches settlement with families after fatal crash

Prime time for moongazers

USA

Wide G.O.P. Field Tests the Waters for 2012 Contest

Capitol Hill reaction to poverty figures sidetracked by political concerns

Europe

Row with Merkel leaves Sarkozy more isolated than ever

Why Russia wants ‘Enemy No. 1’ Akhmed Zakayev back

Middle East

Special Ops and the ‘End of Combat’ in Iraq

Yom Kippur fasting day beginning; Israel grinds to a halt

Asia

Candidates kidnapped on eve of Afghan elections

Eviction game hits a nerve in China

Africa

Violence spirals out of control in east DRC

Latin America

First bore hole for rescue reaches Chile miners

Relief bore reaches BP’s damaged well; endgame in sight

USA

California Braces for Showdown on Emissions

The ‘tea party’ gears up for 2012

Europe

EU forced to apologise as Sarkozy goes on the attack over Nazi ‘insult’

The arrival of an exiled Chechen leader poses a problem for Poland  

Middle East

Iraq was ‘failure of strategic thinking’, chief of defence staff tells MPs

Can ignoring Hamas lead to Israeli-Palestinian peace?

Asia

Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’

Tensions between China and Japan rise over disputed gas field

Africa

S Africans charged in ‘organ trade’

Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan finally announces reelection campaign – on Facebook

Ahmadinejad: Iran justified in barring nuclear inspectors

Pope Benedict XVI set to begin controversial state visit to Britain

USA

Poll Suggests Opportunities for Both Parties in Midterms

An American innovation in light bulbs, but will manufacturing stay in the U.S.?

Europe

Wasteland: Europe stalked by spectre of mass unemployment

Sarkozy suggests Roma ‘should be sent to Luxembourg’

Middle East

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani denies torture claims on Iranian TV

Gaza militants launch rocket attacks in effort to derail peace talks

Asia

Zardari offers more intelligence to Afghanistan Tahir Khan

How North Korea was lost – to China

Africa

Guinea postpones presidential election run-off

Copenhagen climate change summit effort fruitless, says Kibaki

Latin America

High security alert for Mexico bicentennial

U.S. pledges millions to end child labor in cocoa harvests

Shark survivors team up to save species

USA

After Volatile Primary Season, G.O.P. Faces New Test

Jobless are straining Social Security’s disability benefits program

Europe

Traditionalists outraged at Versailles’ modern makeover

EU agency demands more coherent asylum procedures

Middle East

New building permits cast shadow over Middle East peace talks

Briton ‘among thousands held without trial in Iraq’

Asia

Indian children still underweight – after 20 years of interventions

Japan PM Naoto Kan survives leadership challenge

Africa

A suburban idyll fades away in Johannesburg

Latin America

Cuba to cut more than 1m state jobs

‘Rampant abuse in Iraq jails’

In Del., GOP comes out swinging against tea party

States opposed to healthcare overhaul pin hopes on Florida court hearing

Europe

France mourns Claude Chabrol, giant of cinema’s New Wave

Papandreou confident as officials arrive for Greek financial checkup

Middle East

Iran demands $500,000 to free US hiker Sarah Shourd

Turkish reform vote gets Western backin

Asia

Vietnam seeks gains as China labor costs rise

Japan offers ‘heartfelt apology’ to U.S. POWs

Africa

Senegal Court Forbids Forcing Children to Beg

Latin America

Why tourists no longer go loco in Acapulco

Record gains for U.S. poverty with elections looming

Earth, wind and fire: How tapping into the natural world is going mainstream

USA

On 9/11, commemorations accompanied by focus on Islam

Obama’s electoral coalition is crumbling

Europe

Merkel ally quits after claiming Nazis didn’t start war

An ill wind blows for Denmark’s green energy revolution

Middle East

Iran: women on the frontline of the fight for rights

Turkey votes on reforms to constitution

Asia

China rethinks its controversial one-child policy

Middlesbrough Ladies’ North Korean football tour guarantees place in history

Africa

Congo examines mass graves to find proof of revenge genocide on Hutus

Latin America

Eight months after Haiti earthquake, a nation hangs on

Robert Fisk: Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – and nothing learnt

Saturn’s moons team up

USA

US faces ‘Americanisation’ of terror threat

Pastor Terry Jones’s Koran-burning threat started with a tweet

Europe

Medvedev defends Russian progress on path to democracy

Middle East

Settlers vow to keep on building – at any cost

Obama has urged Netanyahu to extend partial construction freeze

Asia

The Karzai empire, villas in Dubai and fears over Afghan aid

Malaysia’s forgotten, forgiven 9/11 history

Africa

Mozambique govt suspends SMSes

Guinea poll chief guilty of fraud

Latin America

Salvadoran leader speaks of criminal gangs’ links to drug cartels