Weeks before snipers sparked war at the Sarajevo Holiday Inn in 1992, I visited a psychiatrist, silver-maned and clearly loony, at his Bosnian Serb party headquarters.

He jabbed a stick at a colorful grade-school map on a wall of the tiny office to show how Serbs would displace Muslims and...

If puzzle pieces are missing in the Roxanna Brown case, the picture is clear, a terrifying vignette of relinquished justice and lost humanity in America.

Roxanna, a U.S. citizen who ran Bangkok University's ceramics museum and fiercely opposed illegal dealings in Asian antiquities, came to lecture in Seattle in May.

Ask any reporter who knows brutal regimes: No hairs can be split over torture. Victims see no ambiguity. The memory stays fresh all their lives. More than pain, they recall smoldering contempt for their torturers.

You might have asked Baudouin Kayembe, the courageous owner of a weekly paper...

The Associated Press figured twice in recent New York Times items, and the first raised only a passing chuckle. But the two together ought to terrify us all.

With our planet in dire straits, the venerable AP reflected a ray of hope: "Paris Hilton is being praised by conservationists...

DANANG, Vietnam - Revisiting scenes of our crime, with those formidable bunkers now furry green and crumbling, I keep obsessing on Iraq. Back in 1968, Peter Arnett summed up futile war in a quote by an American major: "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Today, better...

SRINAGAR, Kashmir -- It is safe to say The Judge has black hair and dark Kashmiri eyes that can bore through zinc. Beyond that, it's risky. He is a man of conscience who speaks truths in low tones, and that can be fatal here.

We met via a person he...

NEW DELHI - At daybreak in the last remnants of world-class slums along the Yamuna, all the "India Shining" hype smells as foul as the fetid black river. This can't be what Gandhi had in mind, 60 years ago, when he brought down the British Raj to build an...

PARIS -- Like every Fifth Republic president elected to rule France, Nicolas Sarkozy is something of a democrat, a demagogue, and a demigod in a nation with all the societal order of cats around tuna. This time, however, plus ca change is out the window.

Charles de Gaulle is finally...