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Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports on the reformists campaign to try and win the upcoming elections in 2009.
Conservatives in Iran are looking to increase their majority in a second round of parliamentary elections, while reformists are just hoping to gain enough support to get their voices heard.
Reformists are hopeful that the ‘failing economy’ in Iran will encourage people to vote for them.
82 of 290 seats are being contested in a system that is stacked against them. The best the reformers can hope for is to gain from their opponents’ mistakes.

Iraq’s neighbours met Tuesday in Kuwait to discuss assisting the Iraqi government.

Iraq’s neighbours met Tuesday in Kuwait to discuss assisting the Iraqi government.

The Iraq war has cost US taxpayers $526 billion in direct costs and about $1.3 trillion to the economy, and with fears of a recession looming the war’s economic impact is causing concern amongst US voters. Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker reports.

It was once thought that Mount Everest was only conquerable by the fittest.

But following this week’s elections in Nepal and with the prospect of lasting peace, it’s hoped that thousands more tourists will be drawn to the region.

It would bring much needed income to a country where 70 per cent of the population lives on less than two dollars a day.

Jane Dutton reports from Kathmandu.