Political clashes in parts of Venezuela escalated this weekend with the arrest of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. Ledezma is accused of being part of a foreign plot to force the current administration from power. The a...
“As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever survive our own ingenuity.R...
95 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest to Chinese rule in Tibet. The majority of these individuals have been in their twenties and teens. On the 7th November three boys, one 15, and two 16, dosed themselves in petrol...
When 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, the world was stunned by her bravery and wisdom. Nicola Slawson speaks to Malala’s father, Ziauddin, about education, equality ...
There’s a new website in India called “MyGov” that invites citizens to participate actively in the country’s governance and development. MyGov is the work of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s we...
This is the week Greece finds out whether it will receive a new tranche of EU funds to help it pay its creditors. Or what that last week? Or maybe the week before. In fact, as a colleague pointed out to me earlier today; the of...
It not entirely an accident that Timbuktu is a colloquialism for any faraway place. The intricately complex conflict in Northern Mali is one that seems even more remote from our comprehension than other modern armed conflicts. ...
Vice President Joe Biden might be notorious for sometimes speaking before he thinks, but many will agree that he couldn’t have said it better when it came to abortion and the role of religion during last night’s Vice Presid...
Protests have escalated in Vietnam over China’s towing of an oil rig ‘inside’ the territorial waters of Vietnam in the South China Sea. According to Vietnam, the Chinese oil rig known as Haiyang Shiyou 98 is 80 nautical...