Viewpoint: Throwing shoes at George Bush might be the only gesture that answers eight years of his presidency, writes Gary Younge

Viewpoint: Philippe Dagen reviews a geometrical exaltation of the female form, on show in Paris

Viewpoint: Ed Pilkington writes that more than one in 10 US citizens now need government-issue food stamps to survive

Viewpoint: The 'wrong twin', Lech Kaczynski, is doggedly defending his and his brother's vision of the nation, writes Piotr Smolar

Viewpoint: In beleaguered Timor-Leste, the world's newest nation, the challenge is to spend cash from oil on setting up a future. Matt Crook reports from Dili

Viewpoint: Obama used to mock Clinton’s close friendship with India. Not any more, as the Mumbai attacks look set to deepen the alliance between India and the US, writes Suzanne Goldenberg

Viewpoint: Paying developing countries not to cut down their forests could destroy indigenous communities, says Ricardo Carrere

Viewpoint: An epic exhibition of photographs in Barcelona focuses on content rather than form, writes Michel Guerrin

Viewpoint: A Swedish school was shocked to learn it treated its male and female pupils differently, reports Anne Chemin

Viewpoint: By offering Hillary Clinton the job of secretary of state, Obama may have brought Big Dog to heel, writes Dan Glaister