Prime Minister plays to the stereotype
Poor Silvio Berlusconi.
Being Prime Minister of Italy is a hard job, and nobody understands him.
World View
US passions set media agenda
The media in the Middle East carry a lot of Middle Eastern stories, of course, but why do most of the other media in the world do the same?
Space race late starters likely to become leaders
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) has just released the full data on last year's mission to find out whether there are usable amounts of water on the moon, and the news
Obama's November not as bad as all that
Green tide turns tsunami in Brazil
"This is now the great mystery of Brazilian politics: what will Marina do?"
Not all Dutch have gone crazy
If Geert Wilders were some underemployed bigot ranting in a pub, you'd just move away from him.
Israel chooses power over peace
The headlines in the Western media all said more or less the same thing when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the plug on the latest round of the "Middle East peace process" last Su
The Pope and the immoral atheists
Chinese giant should watch for the coming slump
Will the 21st century belong to China? For a while, perhaps - but only in the sense that it was said to belong to Japan in the 1980s.
Ending Israel's Gaza blockade
United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has called for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.Britain, France, Germany and Russia have done the same.