By Stephen Mulvey 

World leaders are heading for Washington to discuss what Barack Obama has described as "the most immediate and extreme threat to global security" - the risk that terrorists could acquire a nuclear bomb. But how likely is this scenario?

By Kayode Kolade with Agency report 

Ordinarily, what ought to be a carnival like celebration to commemorate a hard fought struggle for nationhood, turned out to be one of  sombre reflections. Namibia made a glorious but decisive date with history on March 21, 1990 when she achieved independence. For Namibians, it has been a journey that traversed over hundred (100) years of gruesome anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle as well as a century of brutal colonial oppression and exploitation. 

By Gavin Hewitt 

When it comes to Russia and America, nuclear weapons are old footage. They seem to belong in another time, when the old guard would stand atop Lenin’s Mausoleum and watch SS20s trundling through Red Square. Or fresh-faced soldiers in their Midwestern silos practising their dual-key launches. It was an era of Doctor Strangelove and MAD - mutually assured destruction. Presidents - we were often reminded - travelled with the nuclear codes.

By James Denselow 

Following the Iraqi elections earlier this month, the foreign secretary David Miliband announced that "the Iraqi people, voting in their millions, have made clear they want an effective, accountable and inclusive government".