Full Coverage: Middle East

31.07.2008 A change in the law is needed in the wake of the House of Lords ruling in favour of the Serious Fraud Office's termination of a corruption investigation into BAE arms deals with Saudi Arabia, say campaigners.

29.07.2008 The House of Lords will give its verdict on Wednesday on the Serious Fraud Office's appeal against a ruling that its director acted unlawfully when he stopped a corruption investigation into a huge BAE-Saudi arms deal.

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

15.07.2008 Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris says that although the Abu Ghraib prison photographs were “the most widely seen photographs in history”, no-one had really talked to those responsible for the abuses captured on camera. His film Standard Operating Procedure puts that right.

10.07.2008 All the boys in the band want is to play. Unfortunately, they are Iraqis, so it has proved impossible.