The shadow of his smile - JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation (US)

Court cases and terror - Beril Dedeoglu, Zaman (Turkey)

Low-Road Express - Editorial, The New York Times

Blowing smoke over Jerusalem - Douglas Bloomfield, The Jerusalem Post

Moniker who? What a lot of hula-baloo - Raybon Kan, The Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand)

Mandela: a legacy under threat - Editorial, The Mail and Guardian (South Africa)

Waiting for a Democratic Godot in the Kremlin - Dmitry Trenin, The Moscow Times

Third world banking on diaspora - Phillip Adams, The Australian

Inheriting a wounded state - Editorial, The Daily Times (Pakistan)

Incorrect forecasts - Editorial, The Korea Times

Our prisons are dungeons of death - editorial, The Daily Nation (Kenya)

Canada's role in Gitmo grilling - editorial, The Toronto Star

The broken clock - Yusuf Kanli, Turkish Daily News

Better a lame duck in the Mid-East than what we've had - Yossi Alpher, The Daily Star (Lebanon)

May we mock, Barack? - Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

Approve That! - Michele A. Berdy, The Moscow Times

Is the Mediterranean Union of any use? - Bassam Bounenni, The Daily Star (Lebanon)

The joy of $8 gas - Joel Stein, The Los Angeles Times

Democracy is yesterday's hero - Editorial, The Mail and Guardian (South Africa)

Wanted: Unity government - Yoel Marcus, Haaretz (Israel)

A little risk-taking when young could be best vaccine against danger - Lisa Pryor, Sydney Morning Herlad

Questions for the candidates - Mikhail Gorbachev, IHT

Robert Mugabe: Victim or villain? - Amengeo Amengeo, Herald (ZImbabwe)

From booing, will ministers be pelted with rotten eggs?  - Omar Kalinge Nnyago, Monitor (Uganda)

Pakistan needs more democracy to transcend Musharraf - Hassan Abbas, Lebanon Daily Star

Just 8,700 more people and that's it - editorial, Haaretz

The hollow heart of the West - Dominique Moisi, Japan Times

Our politicians never learn from mistakes - editorial, Daily Nation (Kenya)

Follow Arnie's lead - Mike Steketee, The Australian

The Wrong Stuff - Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Tell it to the birds, sir, this deal is as shady as they come - MACHARIA GAITHO , Daily Nation (Kenya)

Unconventional wisdom about Russia - Henry Kissinger, IHT

Football and nationalism the Balkan way - Hajrudin Somun, Zaman (Turkey)

AU in the crosshairs - Mukanya Makwira, Herald (Zimbabwe)

Some required measures to move beyond the Gaza cease-fire - Abraham Yehoshua, Lebanon Daily Star

Justices made right call on habeas corpus - HIROAKI SATO, Japan Times

Markets for the Poor in Mexico - Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal

How Pakistan and India lost it - Rahul Singh, Dawn

The Government Is Hiding Behind Riot Police - editorial, Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)

Land has always been core issue - Peter Mavunga, The Herald (Zimbabwe)

On our current course, resource constraints will curb growth - Jeff Sachs, Lebanon Daily Star

Teach MPs value of peace, then take the message to schools - Lucy Oriang, Daily Nation (Kenya)

Obama the Opportunist - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

We do everything the way we play football  - Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish Daily News

Time to make candidates answer on Iraq - James Rainey, Los Angeles Times

How to fight disasters in future - Wang Xu and Diao Ying, China Daily

The rich get hungrier - Amartya Sen, The Mail and Guardian