BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

US - still at war

Iraq and Guantanamo - a week of gaffes and gains for the US president

How Maoist rebels in central India are threatening the country's security

The prospects of a peaceful future in East Timor

Lenin, Stalin, Marx and Mao provide inspiration for Indian voters in one populous state

Violence in Iraq continues to claim many lives following the election of a new government

Behind bars in Romania with the traffickers who are selling girls into slavery

Could a peace agreement for the Sudanese region of Darfur end three years of war?

Elections that could bring peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo

Twenty years on from the world's worst nuclear accident

An electoral breakthrough in the US, as a black politician considers the presidential race