Lynn Vincent | Republicans in the Senate divide over Bush plan to send more troops to Iraq
Priya Abraham | Western Europeans fume at Putin's use of energy as a political weapon
Jill Nelson | Jimmy Carter loses respect-and friends-over latest book
Priya Abraham | After the rout of the Islamic Courts Union, Mogadishu's transitional government must move quickly to establish law and order
Mindy Belz | An embattled president takes the battle-and its warriors-to a new level
Jamie Dean | Saddam's death closes a door on dictatorship and opens new debate about Iraq's future
Priya Abraham | Christmas means crackdown on some Christian worshippers
Priya Abraham | Concentrated funding for treatment-and the controversial return to insecticides-is beginning to lower malaria's scourge
Priya Abraham | Clamping down on "foreign" influences, the Kremlin forces churches to report attendance and even cash donations