Fifteen years after George W. Bush invaded Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein’s imaginary “weapons of mass destruction”, what do the Iraqis have to show for it?

Ten years ago this month, the financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, triggering the 2008 crash and the subsequent Great Recession from which the world’s economies have still not fully recovered.

Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.” Nietzsche? Goebbels?

I was one of five children, so I am in an invidious position when I write about population growth.

On Sunday, Brazil’s top electoral court ruled that “Lula”, former president Luiz Inácio da Silva, cannot run in the presidential election this October.He served two terms as president (2003-2011), he dutifully waited out the following two terms, and his Workers’ Party (PT) has no

Two weeks ago, Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a million people belonging to the Uighur and other Muslim minority groups in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang have been detained in concentration ca

Here’s the good news. Last February the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague opened an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines as part of his “war on drugs”.Now for the bad news.

It would be churlish to ask what took them so long.

On 8 August 1918, one hundred years ago on Wednesday, it finally became clear who was going to win the World War I.