Hungry Haitians take to the streetsAt least five people have died during a week of protests against rising food costs in Haiti, which have doubled in the past year. Riots broke out across the island, including in Port-au-Prince, where thousands surrounded the presidential palace
The true meaning of "Fun, Travel and Adventure"Sebastian Kennedy profiles US journalist, author and liberal academic Christian Parenti, who has reported extensively on hard-hitting issues in the Middle East, West Africa and South America
Booze, schmooze and museSebastian Kennedy takes a look at London's Frontline Club, the networking den, ideas forum and boozey refuge for anybody and everybody involved in foreign news production. The seeds of the club were sown during the 1992 Gulf war, when a small group of journalists took the initiative by reporting events independently of mainstream news outlets
Should readers expect impartiality from foreign correspondents? The Guardian's Latin America correspondent Rory Carroll has been accused of lacking impartiality in his reporting of current affairs in socialist Venezuela and neighbouring Colombia. According to some, his reports are too critical of Venezuela's socialist government and tend to overlook human rights abuses committed by or on behalf of Colombia's rightwing government. Sebastian Kennedy weighs up the evidence, and considers the broader issue: is impartiality desirable, or even possible, when reporting news abroad?
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