Best of 2007: all articles

The great filmmaker's bond with his homeland was conflictual as well as intimate 

The writer and Saqi publisher died on 17 February 2007. Her last article - on Beirut - is here. Plus: memory trio, and life journey

A neglected "frozen conflict" needs a shared not a unilateral solution

Zimbabwe's president turns 84 with a lavish party in his starving country. Wilf Mbanga, former friend turned exiled editor of "The Zimbabwean", writes to him (archive)

The scale of global debt reflects a broken financial system

Pakistan's arc of protest leaves its most historic and political city unmoved

An age of media collusion and deceit needs Walter Lippmann's voice

The human costs and confusions of online identity

Al Gore's award is a distraction. The real debate is about ourselves

Behind the election is a riven but paralysed country

After protest, what next? Plus: satellite images map the junta's abuse, and global outrage builds

Why is evidence-based, reason-fuelled research the subject of a great refusal?

Wars end, terrorism fades, groups die. Here's how the cycle begun on 9/11 can close

The implosion of Chad has become part of a wider regional conflict

The troubled relationship between the European Union and Russia involves a fundamental clash of visions

China, Iran, Spain - and Islam - are arriving in Latin America as the US pays for its Iraq folly

China's purchase of a stake in Barclays bank signals a new phase in its global economic strategy

Two worlds collide in a London taxi. Bissane El-Cheikh was one

Is there a connection between the study of science and a readiness to commit terrorist acts?

A story of media fakery has lessons for China's people and political elite alike