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Report on fading hopes for the promised Sahrawi independence referendum

Including Charles M Shultz on Charlie Brown and political cartoonist Steve Bell.

What do we mean by a 'super power' nowadays?

Are Westerners in danger of destroying the cultures and landscapes they've come to see?

Could the phenomenal spending culture in the United Arab Emirates be coming to a close?

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 hit Indonesia hard. How is the country doing now?

Author Norman G Finkelstein argues the Holocaust has been exploited for political gain

Is America showing a greater commitment to Africa?

The history of immigration in Australia, and its changing relationship with Britain

Traditional Chinese architecture competes with Beijing's need to develop

With an aging population and falling birthrate, will Europe admit it needs immigration?

How the rise of nationalism and denial of the Nanking massacre is causing concern

Campaign news and expert analysis from the 2000 US presidential election

How the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan created an armed cadre of 20,000 foreign radicals

Report on Manila's first execution since capital punishment was re-introduced in 1994

Report from Norway on the Sami people, nomadic reindeer herders

Does US campaign financing put special interests above national interests?

Why have communities that previously got along fallen into such bitter enmity?

Can UK campaigners manage to remove a 1988 law banning the "promotion" of homosexuality?

A study of US economic growth in the 21st Century

The repercussions of global warming on the developing world

The future of the House of Lords, the unelected upper house of the UK parliament

Scientific medical breakthroughs including limb transplants and human tissue growth

The ongoing conflict and lawlessness described as "Africa's first world war"

Is the traditional local shop doomed? A debate about the impact of out-of-town superstores

Only 3% of the world's communities have a country they can call their own

A report on General Musharraf's coup d'etat over Prime Minister Sharif

The battle for the future direction of the Islamic revolution

A year after the report into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, has anything changed?

How smuggled treasures from Italy, Greece, and Turkey are ending up on sale in London