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The growing trend in Africa for father to follow son into presidential office.
The economic imbalances between China and the US and their role in the financial crisis.
Is Al Qaeda running out of money?
Why is Ethiopia so vulnerable to food shortages?
The state of contemporary art 50 years after the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened.
Can the new Windows 7 operating system rescue Microsoft's reputation?
Coming up in Analysis - why is it so hard to reform the United Nations.
Is the peace agreement between North and South Sudan beginning to unravel?