Robert Mugabe is in New York this week to attend the meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Perhaps the other representatives might like to ask Mugabe about a report that last week his followers violently attacked 15 representatives of the political opposition, including the leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and senior officials of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The beatings were just the latest attack in the war Mugabe is waging against his own people, whom he has ruled since 1980.

This article discusses the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, which was "marred by a series of logistical nightmares". The situation is the same in many poor countries, where governments prevent millions of poor people from obtaining clean water.

"Islam needs to be saved from medieval traditions and modern political hatreds, and to be reunderstood as a God-centered civil faith that will have no trouble being a part of the open, pluralistic modern society."