by Molly Corso, EurasiaNet, USA - The looming mayoral election campaign in Tbilisi is shaping up as an important test of Georgia’s political maturity.

by Penny De Los Santos, Mother Jones, USA - In Nuevo Laredo, children do time with the cartels.

by Caroline Bennett, Global Post, USA - Behind the ominous barbed wire and high concrete walls of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in Mexico City, sits a cheerful nursery school with colorful walls, a maze of swings and slides and a playgroup of giggling toddlers.

by Emma LeBlanc, The National, United Arab Emirates

by Jean Chung, International Herald Tribune, France - After decades as pariahs, some aging women have begun speaking out about their experience as prostitutes in camp towns constructed around American military bases in South Korea.

by Anahit Hayrapetyan, EurasiaNet, USA - The Moonies have done it; the United Arab Emirates have done it. And, now, in a bid to boost its population, so has the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, with the wedding of 700 couples on October 16.

by Kate Geraghty, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Photographer Kate Geraghty reports from a Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in the rural village of Allelu, where MSF are screening and treating acutely malnourished people, many of them children.

by Rita Leistner, BBC News, UK - Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. Over the next 18 months she returned to the country several times capturing images of life with the troops - as well as behind the scenes in a psychiatric hospital.