North Korea sanctions agreed Japan, South Korea, China and Russia, in an unusual show of regional unity, have lined up behind US-drafted measures to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test. They responded with verbal belligerence
Republicans face revolt Andrew Rawnsley says that the party of George Bush faces three big problems in the upcoming election: sex, money and Iraq. The president himself faces a potentially bleak closing chapter of his term in office
Lost on the road to democracy Burma's ruling junta has reconvened its constitution-drafting assembly, but John Aglionby reports that few outside the government regard this as anything more than a charade
Running dry David Adam reports that as scientists measure the rapid rate at which global warming is melting glaciers, they are worried that the water supplies on which millions in South America and Asia depend will dry up
