Peter Hetherington: In Delhi, people work in partnership with bureaucrats to improve a range of local services

Michael White: Yesterday David Cameron used the crisis to bury an irksome commitment of his own, to match Labour's spending plans between now and 2011

Simon Hoggart: The Commons culture committee lined up to criticize the BBC only to find the scandal was yesterday's news

Marcel Berlins: I fear that the words feral and vermin will stick, while the sentence 'Most children are good' will be forgotten

State owned companies advised to cut salaries rather than jobs as China's growth slows

Columbian vice-president appeals to eco-conscious drug-users to stop their habit for environment's sake

One of the biggest photo collections in the world that ranges from the 1750s through to the seminal moments of the 20th century and on into the present day was made available to the public online from today

Douglas Alexander says the money will help alleviate poverty in a country where 828 million people live on less than $2 a day

Inquest into how holidaymakers drowned in their attempts to save children from Algarve currents

Jon Henley: Hijacking a supertanker is all too easy say industry insiders. The spoils are huge, the crews unarmed and the shipowners curiously uninterested

Douglas Alexander says that there are still 828 million people living on less than $2 a day in India

Move follows Kremlin's claims that western media now accepts Georgia was aggressor in conflict

China's relations with area have 'never been so close', Hu Jintao tells Peruvian press

At least 12 foreign ships are being held hostage in the waters off Eyl, a rundown Somali fishing outpost

Deal between Moscow and Caracas presents Barack Obama with early foreign policy challenge

From Marilyn Monroe to Barack Obama, 10 million images to be made available on Google

Hijacking of Hong Kong cargo vessel is seventh successful seizure in 12 days

In the Gulf of Aden piracy pays, and it is a lesson that has not been lost on the pirates, writes Julian Borger

Hu Jintao and scores of business people sweep through Latin America to reinforce Beijing's economic power in the region

Last week, the weekly jobless claims increased for the third time more than 500,000 since 1992.