by Charlotte West, Sweden.se, Sweden -

by Irena Maryniak, Eurozine -

by Bronwen Maddox, The Times, UK -

by Pearlie Joubert, Mail&Guardian Online, South Africa -

by Marina Kamenev, The Moscow Times, Russia -
Working on commercials may not be glamorous, but it's become the primary training ground for a new generation of Russian filmmakers.

by Li Xing, China Daily, China -

by Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times
Previous generations of female leaders have often kept their family lives in the background. Today they are positively flaunting their maternity.

by Ulrike Putz, Spiegel Online, Damascus, Syria -
An Emerging Iraqi Refugee Crisis

by Asya Umarova and Laura Aldamova, Caucasus Reporting Service, Grozny, Chechnya -
Chechens frustrated by Russian obstruction of a reform of Europe’s human rights court.

by Hiroko Nakata, The Japan Times, Japan -

by Nehemia Shtrasler, Haaretz, Israel -

by Semih Idiz, The Turkish Daily News, Turkey -

by Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, India -

by Edith Fortunate, The Standard, Kenya -
Many pre-teens live a carefree life, not so the girls of Kibera who start giving birth at nine years of age.

by Marina Kozlova, Transision Online, Uzbekistan -
Niyazov's onetime hatchet man is now pledging to lighten up and open Turkmenistan to the world.

by Camilla Cavendish, The Times, UK - Don’t believe that airline propaganda

by Cindy Bevington, KPC News, USA

by Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune, Paris, France

by Marina Ottaway, Foreign Policy, USA - The Middle East’s strongmen were under pressure to reform. Now, they rest easy.

by Eyglo S. Arnarsdottir, Iceland Review Online, Iceland

by Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service News Agency, Johannesburg, South Africa

by Galina Stolyarova, Transitions Online, Moscow / St. Petersburg, Russia - The count of Russian journalists who die mysteriously keeps rising, but investigators never find the killers.

by Blaga Bangieva, News.bg, Bulgaria

by Juliet Lyon, The Guardian, UK - Damaged and vulnerable women continue to be imprisoned when an alternative already exists

by Natalya Krainova, The Moscow Times, Russia

by Pliny Han, China News, China

by Janet Zadok, Daily Trust, Nigeria

by Lebohang Nthongoa, Sowetan, South Africa

by Felly Kimenyi, The New Times Online, Rwanda

The following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian women's rights activist Nawal Al-Sa'dawi, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on March 3, 2007.

by Sibel Cingi, Turkish Daily News, Turkey

by Shelly Paz, The Jerusalem Post, Israel

by Indrani Bagchi, The Times of India, India

by Lin Li, China View, China

by Denyse Renne, Trinidad & Tibago Express, Trinidad and Tobago

by Amelia Gentleman, International Herald Tribune, New Dehli

by Anne E. Kornblut, The Washington Post, USA - Campaigns' Scrutiny Unusually Intense

by Lucia Kubosova, EU Observer

by Erin Wayman, ScienceNOW Daily News, USA

by Mirella Hodeib, The Daily Star, Lebanon

by TUNYA SUKPANICH, The Bankok Post, Thailand - Chantawipa Apisuk, founder of Empower Foundation, believes that equality is necessary for every group in society, and that the government must guarantee equal rights for every profession

by Sucheta Dalal, Indian Express, India

by Rashmee Roshan Lall, The Times of India, India

by Mu Xuequan, China View, China

by Samantha Maiden and Imre Salusinszky, The Australian, Australia

by Matilda Kirenga, Arusha Times, Tanzania

by Marina Kamenev, The Moscow Times, Russia - Russian and German museums set aside their differences to cooperate on an exhibition of "trophy art" taken from Berlin by the Red Army in 1945.

by Jenny Keown, New Zealand Herald, New Zealand

by Lyse Doucet, BBC, Afghanistan

by Mirjana Maleska, New Balkan Politics, Macedonia

by Isabel Chimangeni, The Times of Zambia, Zambia

by Fulya Özerkan, Turkish Daily News, Turkey

by Hiroko Ihara, Daily Yomiuri, Japan

by Jun Hongo, The Japan Times, Japan

by Wang yu, China Daily, China

by Sonia Faleiro, Tehelka, India - The rabid fringe should not get away with stifling freedom of expression